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Power BI Custom Visuals- PowerApps

Written by Devin Knight | Jun 21, 2018

In this module, you will learn how to use the PowerApps Custom Visual. The PowerApps visual allows you to embed line of business applications that you have developed through PowerApps inside of Power BI. Note this blog has two videos: the first demonstrating how to use the custom visual and then the second, Building Your First PowerApp, showing how to create the app used in this solution.

Module 108 – PowerApps

 Building the App

To learn more about building PowerApps, please visit http://blog.pragmaticworks.com/building-your-first-powerapp 

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Key Takeaways

  • Use to integrate line of business applications into Power BI.
  • Gives you the ability to have writeback in Power BI. 

This PowerApps visual shows a customer check in app that helps keep track of appointments.

Under the Format paintbrush you will not find any specific customizations for this visual. You can however still adjust the background color, add a border around the visual and lock the aspect ratio under the Format section.

Find Out More

You will always be able to find this video module and advanced viewing of future modules on the Pragmatic Works On-Demand Training platform or view my previous blog posts.