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I managed to build a REST based API connection file on Postman. I'm able to download a V2 postman file.

However when I try to upload this file in order to create the custom connector on PowerApps, it says I cannot. I think it is because PowerApps needs a V1 file. Does anyone know if PowerApps will supports a V2 file, or if there's any easy way to convert V2 to V1?

In general it seems difficult to set a REST based API on PowerApps with the custom connector. Is there any other easier tools that could easily be imported to powerapps? I set it up on Postman but now it seems I can't use that connection for PowerApps

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StalinPonnusamy Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @JimmyNeutron

I had a similar issue which I couldn't able to import from Postman, so I used "Create from blank" and worked well. And recently I tested "Create from Azure Service" and worked well but that feature is in preview mode.

Example "Create from blank"

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Hi @JimmyNeutron

Let us know if anything needs on this post. We can help with this.

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I managed to get it to work. I ended up just creating the connector from blank and trying to replicate as much as I could. I didn't realize the parameter name was important for the API key.

There is one more question I had. The API URL ends in the item#. So it goes item/12345. This isn't standard like other APIs where the URL contains a question mark. For example, the google books api goes like this:
books/v1/volumes?q=search+terms
Where q is a query parameter that can be changed to get different results. In this case, it is set to "search terms"

Is there anyway to be able to pass in the item number in PowerApps and get it to append to the URL without the question mark / equal sign? For example, I want the user to be able to type in a number, then the program will append the number (by itself)

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If the API doesn't need any query parameter then it's fine. When you create a Custom connector it should not ask for it and from PowerApps we can call the connector without query parameter.

In the definition, Create a request from a sample helps to define params or not.

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Custom connectors apparently now supports Postman V2.0 and Postman 2.1 collections.
I have tried 2 different Power App tenants and both won't accept any 2.0 or 2.1 collections with a "Cannot read property 'getURL' of undefined". I have to assume that the feature is coming and is just not working as of today.

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