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The PDF function no longer seems to work

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Posted on by Florent

Hello,

Since yesterday, the PDF function doesn't seem to “create” content, which causes my application to crash when I want to send the file in an e-mail or use it in power automate as indicated by the learn (Utiliser la fonction PDF (expérimentale) - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn).

Is there a one-off problem with this function?

Thank you for your answers.

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ronaldwalcott 3,847 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Show the code that you using to execute the PDF.

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Florent 27 on at

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Hello,

I) Here is the code I use :

Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(

"myemail@mycompany.com";

"Dossier de révision";

"Dossier de révision en PJ.";

{

Cc: CurrentUser.Email;

Attachments: Table(

{

Name: Year(Today()) & "." & Month(Today()) & "." & Day(Today()) & " - " & Dos_Rev_No_Dossier_En_Cours.Text & " - " & "Dossier De Révision.pdf";

ContentBytes: PDF(Dossier_Revision_Social)

}

)

}

)

II) I also tried this method (How to Download PDFs DIRECTLY from Power Apps with the PDF Function #Shorts) :

OnSelect Button : Set(pdfBlob; PDF(Dossier_Revision_Social))

Attachment control : {Name:"Dossier de Révision.pdf"; Value: pdfBlob}

But the PDF document is empty :

Have a nice day and thank you for your answers.

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Florent 27 on at

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Hello,

After many tests, it seems that the problem comes from the fact that I had several containers superimposed on the same screen or, more likely, containers within containers.

Although this isn't a solution in itself, but here's the workaround I've implemented:
- Instead of using a container, I used a DataCard copied/pasted from a screen template with scrolling,
- I added all my containers one after the other to the DataCard,
- I applied the PDF function to the DataCard: “contentBytes: PDF(myDataCard; {ExpandContainers: true})”.

Have a nice day!

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msoenmez 46 on at

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Have you made any changes since the PDF generation worked correctly in the page Dossier_Revision_Social? PDF function is experimental -and as I have also seen this before- if you have lots of components in the page, it may stop working. I think it is not optimized well and it uses all the memory available for the Browser Tab and that causes the crash. So I would suggest to check the UI elements in the page and try to reduce the count elements if you can. There are also other ways to generate PDF like generating an HTML and sending it to Power Automate, you can try to google it.

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