Let's take a deeper dive into one of
the features of Microsoft power platform connectors. Microsoft power platform is made powerful
by its ability to leverage data across many platforms to do this components of
Microsoft power platform use connectors. You can think of connectors as a bridge
from your data source to your app or workflow and this allows information to
be conveyed back and forth, connectors. Allow you to extend your business
solutions across platforms and add functionality for your users in order
to understand the types of connectors and what you can do with them. You must first understand the types
of data sources to which they connect the two types of data sources are tabular
data and function based data. A tabular data sources,
one that returns data in a structured table format power apps
can directly read and display these tables through galleries,
forms and other controls. Additionally, if the data
source supports it, Power apps can create edit and
delete data from these table sources. Examples include Microsoft data,
verse, SharePoint and sequel server secondly,
a function based data sources, one that uses functions to
interact with the data source. These functions can be used to return
a table of data but offer more extensive actions such as the ability to send
an email update permissions or create a calendar event. Examples include Office 365 users
project online and Azure blob storage both of these data source
types are commonly used to bring data. And additional functionality to your
solutions as you can see connecting to data sources allows you to integrate
disparate parts of your business solutions. To build them out cohesively now that
you understand more about data sources, you are ready to learn about connectors, connectors are the bridges from
your data source to your app. Workflow or dashboard Microsoft Power
platform has more than 275 connectors available to common data sources and
you can also create custom connectors. Connectors are divided into standard and premium some popular standard connectors
are SharePoint outlook and YouTube. Premium connectors require additional
licensing for your app and or users a few premium connectors are sequel
server, SurveyMonkey and mail chimp. You can also use apps source to source and
install apps and use the connectors to
non Microsoft services. Connectors can provide input and
output between a data source and Microsoft power platform speeding up
the delivery of business solutions. For instance, using dynamic three,
6 5 apps such as customer service, you can set up power automate to
notify users when specific customer. Types are added or you can use a
SharePoint document library to store files that are fed into power apps to manage and
distribute. Microsoft also provides connectors to
Azure services providing additional Ai techniques to do tasks such
as reading text or images or cognitive services like
recognizing faces and images. All Microsoft power platform
business solutions can be used and implemented into Microsoft
365 apps such as Teens. This allows users to play
power apps within teams or run power automate from actions and
events within teams. Once you have established a data
source and configured your connector, there are two types of operations
you can use triggers or actions triggers are only used
in power automate and prompt. A flow to begin,
triggers can be time based, such as flow, which begins every day at eight a.m. Or they could be based off an action
like creating a new row in a table or receiving an email. You will always need a trigger to tell
your workflow when to run actions are used in power Automate and power apps. Actions are prompted by the user or
trigger and allow interaction with your
data source by some function. For example, an action would be sending
an email in your workflow app or writing a new line in a data source. Now you have explored what connectors are
and how to use them you can start to see the real potential and capabilities of
Microsoft power platforms see you soon.