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Posted on 21 Mar 2022 16:27:55 by Vishal1 Microsoft Employee

Hi All,

How to accomplish copy to clipboard in PowerApps, do we have any function or script or custom coding available?

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GREGWOUARE 39 on 22 Mar 2024 at 20:50:05

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Re: Copy to clipboard

does not works in power app for teams neither ... 😞
BCBuizer 22,264 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 11 May 2023 at 07:13:59

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Re: Copy to clipboard

Hi @MichaGue ,

The documentation indeed states this does not work for embedded apps:

Copy function in Power Apps - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn
MichaGue 235 on 11 May 2023 at 06:42:23

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Re: Copy to clipboard

Hello,

I wanted to use the new Copy() in "Power Apps for PowerBI.

Running the Power App seperately works fine.

Running it in Power BI results in the error: "Failed copying text to clipboard"

Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
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BCBuizer 22,264 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 06 Apr 2023 at 09:45:00

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Hi @GhitaFjorback1 ,

This feature is introduced in version 3.23034: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/released-versions/powerapps-studio-players/3.23034

Currently that's in preview only: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/power-platform/released-versions/powerapps

Edit: Roll-out should be completed by April 17th though.
GhitaFjorback1 69 on 06 Apr 2023 at 09:34:34

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Yes, I also just saw this, this morning. I cannot use the function yet though. I wonder which version Power Apps it will be available for.
BCBuizer 22,264 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 06 Apr 2023 at 06:29:05

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Hi,

Recently MS introduced this function, albeit with limitations: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-copy.
GhitaFjorback1 69 on 02 Mar 2023 at 14:44:00

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Re: Copy to clipboard

I know this post is old, but if someone finds their way here like me, I have posted my solution. I have created a PCF component that will do exactly what @Vishal1 is asking. I am attaching my solution for anyone else to use. The component has a button with a "copy-icon". On select of the button the text inserted in the parameter "CopyToText" will be copied to the users clipboard. In the "CopyToText", you can add a variable, a label.Text etc. I have made a short video as well.
What I am struggling with is, that I would like to add the option, that after the copying to clipboard has happened, I would like to make a "notify" function, so that the app would notify the user of "The text has been copied to your clipboard or something like that, but till now I have not figured out how to do this in my index.ts file.

Furthermore, I cannot seem to get my control size to fit my button size... both is no issue, only nice-to-have features, so the control is fully functional as is. Would love someone to help me fix the last two issues though, so please feel free to comment.

PCF_CopyToClipboa...
Vishal1 Microsoft Employee on 21 Mar 2022 at 16:36:05

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Thanks for sharing the link, this required MIT license and few extra installations, any idea whether Microsoft will support open source?
BCBuizer 22,264 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 21 Mar 2022 at 16:33:27

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Hi @Vishal1 ,

This may be an option to explore although I don't have any experience with it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQLR8ndsOE
RandyHayes 76,287 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 21 Mar 2022 at 16:31:47

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Re: Copy to clipboard

@Vishal1

Copying to the clipboard is not supported in PowerApps currently. The user would have to manually select and then copy (ctrl-c) to get the data needed.

I would suggest voting on any of the following ideas in the Idea forum that are all the same!

This one has the most votes so far. It was suggested as an idea on April 30 of 2017!! Still nothing!