Creating your app

Creating the app from SharePoint could not be more simple, which is a credit to Microsoft and shows the importance of the relationship between SharePoint and PowerApps. Simply follow these basic steps:

1. Simply navigate to your list with SharePoint using a browser.
2. On the list actions running across the top of the list, click on the drop-down menu titled PowerApps and select Create an app.
3. If you can't see this menu, then it is likely that you have a list item selected, indicated by a tick against a row.
4. Simply deselect that list item, and the list menu will return:

1. Upon clicking Create an app, a blade will appear on the right-hand side of the screen emblazoned with the PowerApps branding. This blade only requires you to give the app a unique name, that is, a name that hasn't been given to any other PowerApp, not just any apps that have been created from the current site.

1. Once you have given it a name, we can hit Create:

PowerApps will then open in a new browser tab and will begin to build an app based on the data structure that we created within SharePoint. There are no other interactions or configuration settings required; the built-in engine will simply create several screens based on your SharePoint configuration:

Following a short pause, the PowerApps Studio will open and will display a fully formed and fully functioning app for you to start to use. So, let's have a look at what has been created for us in this automatically-generated PowerApp.