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Generating a word/HTML document based on the content of collection in a canvas app

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I'm currently working on a canvas app that currently displays a series of records from an entity (Table from the Dataverse). All records are stored in a collection, that is populated programmatically.

 

I would like to add a button to export a nicely formatted report listing the content of the collection (ideally a word document from a template), but do not find related information. To give an example: the canvas app shows a list of products, I'd like to have a Word document (or HTML page) that lists all products visible on the app, and for each product, including the product family and other related information.

 

What would be the preferred approach to reach this result?

 

I tried to find some ways to achieve this result, but these do not seem to apply:

- The populate an MS Word Template step in a flow seems to be valid for only one record at the time, and do not traverse relationships.

- This page explains how to create a template from an entity, offers the option to traverse relationships, but templates do not seem to be accessible from power apps.

(these two methods are also only valid for one record, not for a series of records)

 

Thanks!

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  • LaurensM Profile Picture
    12,516 Moderator on at

    Hi @Rnd_ 

     

    I think a Word Template with a repeating section control would solve the issue of only being valid for 1 record.

    This would involve the button triggering a Power Automate flow.


    A good written tutorial on this by Matthew Devaney can be found here.

     

    I hope this helps!

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