Forms & Custom Connectors?

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Hello,

I am trying to create a PowerApps that works with a Custom Connector as its data source. However, it seems impossible to use PowerApps Forms with Custom Connectors (i.e. what do you set the DataSource and Item properties to?). Otherwise, we will have to build our own "forms" from scratch, which is painful. Any help or suggestions are appreciated!

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Hi @aorphan ,

Only the connector provides tables can be selected as the data sources/Items of Form or Gallery.

A connector(Standard or Custom) may provide tables of data or actions. Some connectors provide only tables, some provide only actions, and some provide both.

If your custom connector only provides actions, you should manually connect a control to an action by editing the Items property of the Form that will show your data. The formula to which you set the Items property specifies the action that retrieves data. For example, the app won't retrieve any data if you connect to Yammer and then set the Items property to the name of the data source. To populate a control with data, specify an action such as GetMessagesInGroup(5033622).messages.

For more information, please refer to document: Overview of canvas-app connectors for PowerApps
Best regards,
Sik

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aorphan 160 on at

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Hi @v-siky-msft ,
That is what I thought. That is unfortunate, but you answered my question so I have marked it as the answer.
Thanks

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