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Can we run Power Automate inside Power Apps Component Library?

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Hi,

I have created a Power Apps Component library and inside that I have called a Power Automate Flow to get some information from SharePoint.

When I test this inside the component on the screen, everything is working fine. I can see the results from Power automate.

When I add this component to a Power App after importing the component library, its failing to call the flow.

Component Library -> Screen 1 -> Component -> button -> Power automate (It is working fine)

Power App -> component -> button -> Power automate (It is not working. Power Automate is not triggering in this case)

I think, as the flow belongs to the component, I am not able to run it when I added to the other Power App.

If this is the case, what would be the approach to trigger a flow inside the component to get the details?

Please help me in understanding where I did wrong and the correct approach here. Thank you.

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v-xiaochen-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @ratnasatish ,

Please try the following steps:

1\ Import my component library to a new canvas app.

2\ Add the component to the screen.

3\

4\ Add the flow to this app.

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Wearsky
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ratnasatish 6 on at

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Hi Wearsky,

Thank you for the steps. After adding the flow to the Canvas App, I am able to trigger the flow from the Component.

This seems that, we need to add the flow to all the Apps which are using the component. This seems to to be tricky, however, I expected that, irrespective of the App, just adding the flow inside a component can work for all the Apps using it.

Is this a work around for this issue or this is only the expected behavior here? Please let me know. Thank you.

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v-xiaochen-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @ratnasatish ,

This is a good idea.

Currently powerapps does not support this behavior.

You could post your good ideas here.

Best Regards,
Wearsky

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swatibece 8 on at

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Hi @ratnasatish ,

Can you please share the screenshot, how have you called Power Automate from the component. As I cannot see the option to add Power Automate under Action menu. When I try to call Power Automate on button OnSelect in the component, it throws an error "Invocation of unknown or unsupported function." Please refer below screenshot for the issue I am facing:

There is no option in the Action menu for Power Automate. Can you please help with this?

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GabrielJamur 5 on at

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Hi everyone!
@swatibece same here.. Were you able to find a solution for this yet?

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WLMHT_SR 13 on at

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Thanks for your post.
Message to Microsoft.
PowerApps component library used to support adding flows. I have an old component that still works and calls to a flow (it's listed in the connectors/data I've added to the component, so I know for a fact it used to be possible to add them). I am getting hacked off with features being removed!!!

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