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Hi, I have the problem with Download command:

In my app I have inserted the icon to Gallery (items from SharePoint document library) with "Download(ThisItem.'{Link}')" statement in icon.OnSelect property.

- In the bowser PoweApp it always opens the document (instead of download) in new browser folder.

- In PoweApp for Windows it always start download window (which is good...) but the extension of downloaded files is changed to .html

Thank You for advise

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rimatos Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @EmilBSP,

Which Link are you providing to the Download function? If you are using the Link to item, this link is relative to a container that has the file. As such you are pointing to the container path and not the File path itself (this may depend upon the configuration at the content source and the browser being used).

You could try inserting the following:

"http://<site URL>/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=/sites/sitename/library/folder/fileName.ext

In this situation you are introducing the "download.aspx" in the URI parameters to download the file, and sending in the end the path to the file.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Ricardo
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Hi @rimatos

thank you for response,

trying to introduce "download.aspx" in my path in Download statement:
example:
Download("<site url>/_layouts/download.aspx?SourceUrl=/sites/site/library/Folder/image.png")
- but calling is resulting to some "Access denied ..." messages

According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-param , :
"The Download function downloads a file from the web to the local device. "
- instead of declration, my download always opened the file in next browser folder. (The "Launch" function I going to the same result.)

In the application, I stared the function on OnSelect Icon property : Download(ThisItem.'Link to item') (SharePoint list item).

When I have tested it in PowerApp window (not in the browser), the same function started uploading window (to choose download file destination) , BUT the extention of downloaded file was setup to ".html" with no chance to change it

Best Regards,
Emil
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Hi @EmilBSP,

Thanks for getting back!

I was also able to replicate that on my side. As such, I believe the best approach now would be to open a ticket with Microsoft Support through https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/support, so this behavior can be investigated in more depth.

As for the access denied in my case the URL I provided was something similar to this:

I have my file stored in a SharePoint library, hence trying to access it like this. Try and change the file to a library you create and see if you are able to use this workaround in the meantime.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Ricardo