From the course: Power Apps: Building Data-Driven Apps

Your first app: Default from existing data

From the course: Power Apps: Building Data-Driven Apps

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Your first app: Default from existing data

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- [Instructor] So, here's our first app. PowerApps has created this for us from the data that exists in the Excel file. Let's take a look at what we've got, okay? Now I'm going to tell you right off the bat that there are some odd things going on. Did you notice that not all the list fields are in the view here? And that the items are out of order? They've been resorted. This is not atypical for PowerApps. I've often found that things will sort of randomly change or display differently than expected when I first create an app. Now the good news is it's all very fixable. The bad news is that we'll have to fix it, but we'll get to that in an upcoming video. In the meanwhile, to see the app in action, I'm going to click on the preview button up in the menu bar, and this is what the app would look like live. We're starting in the browse mode where all the records are displayed, and we can sort these in ascending or descending order. Cool. We can also search for a record by any given value, so if I want to search for it, ah, Isabelle, it picks it up right away. Great, see that's nice. That's very convenient. I can click on any of these records, and it will open up a detail view, and from here, I can go in and edit this record or I can delete the record, right there, and I can also from the browse screen, create a new item, this will open up a brand new record here, but we're not going to do that right now. What we're going to do instead, we're going to close out of the preview, and we're going to go back to the canvas, and we are going to start playing with our app's look and feel.

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