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Respond to a Power App or flow explained??

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Posted on 23 Sep 2024 10:35:51 by WorkingRicardo 749
I'm confused on what this action does. As I understand, you can use this as a substitute to a PowerApps flow. Meaning, you can get the same inputs you'd normally get on a PowerApps flow, but without the user having to actually push a button.
My endgame is having a flow trigger on Sharepoint item creating, then eventually using info stored on the Powerapps list form app (specifically, this: Solved: Using Gallery data as table from PowerApps (powerplatform.com)).
Meaning, I want to obtain data of PowerApps without needing user input. 
Can this action help me acheive this? If not, is there a way to acheive it?
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    Michael E. Gernaey 42,080 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 23 Sep 2024 at 17:38:59
    Respond to a Power App or flow explained??
    Hi
     
    Response to a Power App or Flow is simply a way to send Output to the Parent Caller. if you dont have this, then the flow finishs and passes nothing back.
     
    It has nothing to do with not pushing buttons etc, as this only occurs in a Flow If its called by another flow or a Power App.
     
    So that's what that action does and has nothing to do with what you need, which are Triggers.
     
    Now to your latest question WorkingRicardo
     
    No, you have no way to reach into a Power App to get data from it, via a Flow, UNLESS you triggered the flow from the Power Apps and the Power App passed it data. So no you cannot trigger using the SharePoint trigger AND get data from the App directly.
     
    You would need to have the Power App, write the data somewhere, so that the flow could go and grab it and read it.
     
     
     
     
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    WorkingRicardo 749 on 23 Sep 2024 at 14:21:19
    Respond to a Power App or flow explained??
    @CFernandes
    Hey dunno if I'm mentioning you or not, this new forum is so messy -_-
    Anyway. No ofc I know about that trigger. That is the trigger I intend to use. I want after that trigger a bunch of other actions happening, then I need to retrieve a table created in powerapps as the one mentioned on the liked post:  
    'Condiciones:pruebarecibirtabla'.Run(
    Concat(
        ExportData2;
        'Ref.' & Char(9) & Modelo & Char(9) & 
        Switch(
            DataCardValue2.Selected.Value;
            "A"; Substitute('Neto UD LOTEA'; "."; ",");
            "B"; Substitute('Neto Ud LOTEB'; "."; ",");
            "C"; Substitute('Neto Ud LOTEC'; "."; ",");
            ""
        );
        "|"
    )
)
    That is created from a filtered gallery. So, I need to know if after triggering a flow in another way, you can then add a Powerapps action so that it access and retrieves the sharepoint list form app.
    Is it possible?
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    CFernandes 8,285 Most Valuable Professional on 23 Sep 2024 at 11:46:20
    Respond to a Power App or flow explained??
    Hey Mate,
     
     
    From what I understand you can just use the SharePoint Trigger "when an item is created"  this should trigger the Flow you then use the replace function instead of substitute. - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-replace-substitute
     
    Finally what information you are trying to retrieve from PowerApps? Can you please provide me some more details.
     
     
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