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Hi Team,

Is there a way to somehow run flow from power app with flow connections running under a specific user?

When the flow is triggered for a selected item (not from Powerapp), we can specify which connections should be used (specific or provided by a run-only user).

I would like to provide same options for a flow triggered from power app.

Any thoughts?

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Pavel

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Meneghino 6,949 on at

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One thought is to provide the user to the flow as a parameter, via the User() function.
This is a work-around, of course.

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I do not think this will work.
What I would like to achieve is not provide User() as a parameter, as User() is a user currently using the power app.
But rather, run connections under the service account.

The flow has connections like SharePoint, Outlook, Plumsail (custom)... and I need that SharePoint and Plumsail connectors should be running under the service account instead of a User().

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Pavel

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Meneghino 6,949 on at

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Ah, ok. Then you can probably create an Azure Function for that.

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Hi,

Currently I don't think there is a way to achieve that.

The Connection for each action added within the Microsoft Flow during Editing, is somehow "hard-coded" in the Flow when it is running.

There is an idea submitted on this topic:

Change original owner of a flow

Basically the connection is specified by the original creator, and based on what I know, currently there is no possible workaorund to deal with that.

Please consider vote up the idea above, or create your own one.

Regards,

Michael

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