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Connect to Existing Data in Power Portals

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Is there a way to access existing data through Power Apps Portals/CDS/Dataverse?

 

 

Below is list of ficticious assessments I am displaying in a Power Apps Portal page. I created all of the assessment new adn stored them in the CDS.

 

I have an Excel spreadsheet that has hundreds of line of data that I'd like to display instead of the ficticious data.

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How do I get the data in the Excel document into CDS so that I can access it from here...

 

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    ragavanrajan Profile Picture
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    Hi @Phineas 

     

    The simple way I would think is to use Dataflows

    You can easily generate your entity and map each column to a field. Clear instructions are in the official URL. 

     

    1. Log into https://make.powerapps.com/ 

    2. Choose your environment 

    3. Dataflows > "New DataFlow" 

    4. Choose an Excel Spreadsheet as the data source 

    5. You can use PowerQuery if you need any modifications 

    6. Map the appropriate fields to relevant columns 

    7. Click OK 

     

    All your 20,000 records will be imported. You can also use  "Data Import ++" from the XRM toolbox to achieve this need. Once done. You can display the data as an entity list. 


    Hope it helps. 
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