Trigger Power Automate flow from PowerApps

We are going to do a quick sample Power App example today. We will call a flow from Power App & Send some data as well with the flow. Depending upon your use case, you may or may not send data. But that’s completely fine, I will list some scenarios for both cases.

Amidst of cold, I & my Power App lost senses, and I forgot to save it. So, I had to redo my app. Conclusion -> SAVE YOUR APP!

Today I have taken a Label, a text input & a button for showing the capability.

The label is just for user-friendly names, text input for sending over any user input & button to call the flow. So, it looks like this –

Note – I have a blank default value for the text input & used Hint text. So, when you run the app & start typing, hint text goes automatically as compared to Default

Let’s call the flow now with the click of a button. Select the button, click on the Action button & click on Power Automate.

A window will open on the right side showing existing flows in the same environment. You can either choose one of them or create a new one.

Note – As a good practice, create your flow first.

I am adding existing flow in this scenario.

Once the flow is added, it will automatically provide you a formula.

Depending upon any parameters required in your flow, pass them in the formula.

‘PowerAppV2->Sendanemail(V2)’.Run(TextInput1.Text);

And this is good to go. Let’s also have a quick look at the flow I am using for this.

The flow has two things, a PowerApps trigger & Send an email action.

I am using the input passed from Power Apps, in my email body as shown below. The parameters are available in the dynamic content section of the flow.

Note – It is recommended to inform users that it is an auto-generated email (You can draft a complete sentence here)

If you choose to make flow first, then use the dynamic variable – Ask in PowerApps

Listing some common business scenarios –

Send notification about create or update

Send approval emails

Submit form or leave request

Trigger another process from power apps

Status change of field

Hope this helps!

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