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Power Automate return file to PowerApps for gallery display

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Posted on by Lofy

Hello Professionals,

High-level: A power app that allows the logged in user to see only their data in an excel sheet. The sheet is stored in a SharePoint site but I don't want to give general access to see everything in the excel file.

I am trying have an automation that when runs will pull a file that is store in the users OneDrive and display it in a gallery.

I already have an automation from a service account that goes into the sheet takes just that users info out by id and stores it on their personal OneDrive but I cant get PowerApps to dynamically look in their OneDrive. I have tried to create an automation that returns the file id to the PowerApps on the push of a button but I cant get it to display in a reasonable format like a gallery.

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developingteal 392 on at

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I would work with a power automate that ties into your power app. Get user info -> get file from onedrive -> return file to pwoer app. Then use this statement as the item in the gallery, or use a button like you were before.

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Lofy 6 on at

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@developingteal Can you give some example statement, this is what I have been trying to figure out?
Should the respond to Power App send a get table, file ID, File Name, or something else?

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developingteal 392 on at

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Make sure to use office to get the user. I think you are having issues with pulling an actual file, and I think it is because the account attached is incorrect

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Lofy 6 on at

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I can see in the run history it finds the file and sends it to Power Apps. I don't use office to get the user because "List files in root folder" does that for me.

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developingteal 392 on at

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So is the data passing back to power apps correctly? Your issue would then lie with the display - which you mentioned before. If displaying the data is the issue give me a little more context. If it's a table something like a gallery would work, I just don't know what you are looking for

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