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General questions around API's.

 

Is it better to use them in powerapps or in powerautomate ?

 

Any pros/cons. This will include exception handling as well. I have done it in powerautomate in the past and its straight forward.

 

Thanks

  • christian12 Profile Picture
    christian12 178 on at
    Re: Powerapps API VS Powerautomate

    Thank you so much. That was very helpful

  • Sundeep_Malik Profile Picture
    Sundeep_Malik 6,480 on at
    Re: Powerapps API VS Powerautomate

    Hey @christian12 

     

    Using an API in both Power Apps and Power Automate is pretty easy. But definitely as you have also written above API in Power Automate is pretty straightforward. In Power Apps you will have to make a custom connector for this, which is difficult when you do it for the first time, but when you get the method, you will be able to create it easily. 

    There are not much pros and cons, but I definitely find exception handling much easier in Power Automate. To know more about exception handling in Power Automate you can read my following post:

    Logging of Actions in Sharepoint. [Inputs, Outputs, Final Status, Start Time, End Time], Log Errors. 

     

    Rest if you will be using your API at multiple places like a different app or a flow, I would suggest you to make custom connector for your apis. Then you dont have to write hard coded values always, just directly connect the custom connector. There are many ways by which you can make custom connectors. Giving you some good links which you can check out to know more about custom connectors. 

     

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=6wqTV4wtPd8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofGwmooupA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4aJdQrmTsQ

     

     

    So, pro of Power Automate:

    • Easily/Directly connect APIs.
    • Exception Handling easier than Power Apps

     

    Pros of Power Apps:

     

    • You will make a custom connector for this, which you can use even in your flow too or other applications in the future. 

    .

    Rest, its upto you how you want to use it. 🙂

     

     

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