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A Basic Intro to PowerApps

Despite how much I've been blogging about Apple stuff lately, I still put in time on Microsoft technologies. Specifically, I've been working a lot with Sharepoint lately. If you've worked with Sharepoint, whether on-prem or O365, you've either used or heard of using InfoPath forms for getting data into Lists. InfoPath is due to be EOL'd in the coming years (2023, last time I checked), so I don't see it being a good idea to build complex forms in it any longer. MS' replacement for InfoPath, is called PowerApps. It's meant to be a low-code method for building forms and "apps" you can deploy to users of your organization. I'll be giving a general overview of what PowerApps are and when you, as a Sharepoint admin, would want to build a PowerApp vs an InfoPath form.