PowerApps PDF Generator using Microsoft Flow PDF Converter

Hi Shane,
that`s a great video as always, thanks a lot !!! 🙂
In your example you`re passing only one information/field (= 9 cups) from Power Apps to Flow/Power Automate.
How does the VideoMakePDF.Run(XXXXX) expression needs to look like if i want to pass multiple fields and how can i reference/select the various variables in the HTML code via the triggerBody() expression in Power Automate then?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Shane, thanks for the video. I have a slightly different scenario and am wondering how to get it to work. If a mail is send, I extract the html body and save it to onedrive. That part works. I then convert it to pdf and the images won't show up. Any idea how I can fix it? As I don't save the images separately each time an email arrives.

Hi Shane, greate video. i have made a lot of different tools to create pdf. my problem is now, into the html text there are some dates. if the user has different language setting in his browser the data in the pdf are changed. For example, if user has "us" browser settings and if i put into the compose text html
"<htm lange="de"> the power automate doesn`t transform the date to "de" language... !?

Thank you Shane, this is really helpful and easy to follow.

How do you send the resulting PDF to a printer?

awesome, it works, any chance i could get certain parts of the html to pdf to print out instead of the entire portion based on drop down selections inside the app? or is that too much?

Thank you so much for this video, is there a way to save the PDF landscape ?

HI Shane, your video is very informative, could you please do a video on how to use this on Model Driven App, Thanks

Do you know why I might have an error "Invalid number of arguments: received 1, expected 0. This is the final step and I even created a new button and text input just like you and still the error.

Great, can you show us how to continue and another image as a footer. I tried it my self and got the html syntax from w3school but it did work as expected. Thanks

thanks mate !

Hi Shane Great content by the way
Currently I out issuing a purchase order from the power apps and did all the steps in this video but still the logo did not appear in the pdf file but appeared in the html file
also the PO line details appeared in the html but did not appear in the PDF

Could you please help?

great video! thanks so much for explaining every step! Great job!

Shane, thanks for this video. It is incredibly helpful. One thing that eludes me is how to delete the html file after everything is converted. I tried doing a OneDrive delete file path to the first file, but the file will not delete. Any thoughts?

Hi Shane.. question for you. I have a Standard PDF form that my clients use to initiate requests. Currently they're digitally signing the form and sending a copy via email. Does powerapps allow users to digitally sign a PDF document? Thanks in advance!

Hey Shane, your videos are a real life-saver, thank you! I built a Flow just like in your video, but the PDF part of the OneDrive connector is still in Preview state (and probably will be forever) and my IT department wont let me put this into production. I looked into 3rd Party connectors, but we cannot use them because they're mostly American companies who dont comply with GDPR (PDF will contain sensitive company data). I'm now building an Azure Function which does just the same, what a hassle!

HI Mr Young, thank you so much for your teaching to us. Is that you mean that a traditional HTML file with embedded jpg, png, docx. to PDF? and even using <iframe> tag to display outlook email content in HTML?

Hey Shane, Great video's I'm a big fan. Quick question how would I get multiple text inputs into the PDF. Example you've done it for chewys cup amounts for Tuesday but how about Wednesday Thursday and Friday.

Hi Shane, I know this is an old video but I hope you can help. I have used your method to create a PDF successfully from a form and related gallery (Purchase Order and Items). What I would like to do is attach the pdf back to the same PO, which I have done, except I cannot find a way to refresh, so it appears in the attachments area. Hope this makes sense, any ideas would be appreciated - thanks Mike

Thank you for the video. Everything works like a charm when I am logged in as the user that created the flow. The base files (logo, HTML, pdf) are all saved in the Share with Everyone OneDrive for Business folder. When I run the app/flow using a different account the flow fails on the getting the image file for the logo - says the resource cannot be found. That would be a permission thing right? But the file is in the Shared with Everyone folder and appears to open to all. Heck, I think they can even edit it. So, what am I missing?

very good, I'll try

Hey Shane!
Tell me how to make the landscape orientation of the created PDF

Hi Shane, I just tried to follow this example for the same purpose but I had some trouble with the png because I'm trying to make this but instead of png stored in my OneDrive I would like to this with barcodes html code.

Do you have any idea of how to achieve this? The pdf and the rest of the content in the file is working ok

do have any recommendation if we are going to deal with multiple images in one pdf file, how should we approach that?

If I do this with Sharepoint instead if OneDrive, there is no option for 'Convert file'. Is there another solution for this?

Awesome, that is exactly what I need for one of my projects! Thanks Shane!

This channel is so helpful!! Thank you.

Hi shane, the pdf i generated which i sent to onedrive folder says that looks like this file preview cannot be shown

Blessed 🙏🙏🙏

Hi Shane, Great video. I am running into issues with converting the file from HTML to PDF. I am using the OneDrive for Business Convert File using Path (preview).When I open the HTML file that is located in OneDrive for Business, the layoout, and the data are correct, but when I open the converted PDF file that is created, the layout is completly different and it is not capturing all the Data. Any sugestions what could be the issue?

Is there a way to achieve this with multiple tables and sections in a PDF???

Thanks Shane, nice! I created a file that I saved to Sharepoint and I couldn't figure out what kind of ID the convert to PDF wanted; the path and the ID didn't work for either version. I ended up using the Adobe converter instead but I'd love to know if I just got something wrong using the Onedrive version.

Hello Shane! It's awesome all the work you're doing for us, thank you!! I wanted to ask how the procedure would change if I have different inputs for the pdf, for example a pdf about a cart from a marketplace. In my project I'm trying to generate reports for every business that's associated with any of the items in the shop cart and filtering the products for each report as needed, thing is as difficult as it hears o not that much?? Thanks in advance!!

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thinking you were making this video in 2018... Awsome , thank you a lot for the sharing

Hello Shane,

I'm trying to generate PDF from a SharePoint List but i have a few columns in the list which r in RICH TEXT format, any idea how I can get this into the PDF?

You've done one field, but what about multiple how would that work with the button in the powerapp?

Ok, I am new to PowerApps and have been trying to solve a problem with no results. I am trying to convert html to pdf, but with dynamic pictures. I have everything running and the flow works, but it doesn't show the pictures and is a red X where the pictures are supposed to be. The flow use one drive to export the html file to one drive as you show here, but a dynamic picture doesn't work in my case as I need dynamic. I haven't found one person yet that has addressed this issue. Obviously it has something to do with datauri, but how do you solve this?

Hi Shane,
Is there a way I can create a password-encrypted pdf file using Power Automate?

OMG you're a hero !!! And this Concat function is just perfect

Is there any solution available to print multi screen poweapps form in mutiple pages?

Great Video! Got a new subscriber. I'm running into an issue tho. Lets say two different logos need to be displayed in your demo depending on a Boolean. How would I go about doing this?

It's cool! therefore you can bypass the word premium connector))
did not understand why the concat function was used

Hi Shane Young! Since we are using our own one drive as part of the flow, how to allow other user use the Powerapps PDF?

Hello Shane , i wanted to ask about this code of mine
concat('<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h2>Contact Detail</h2>

<label for="fname">First name:</label>
<input type="text" id="fname" name="fname" value="triggerBody()['Createfile_FileName']"><br>
<label for="lname">Last name:</label>
<input type="text" id="lname" name="lname" value="triggerBody()['Createfile_FileName']"><br>
<label for="age">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Age:</label>
<input type="number" id="age" name="age" value="triggerBody()['Createfile_FileName']"><br>
<label for="contact">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Contact:</label>
<input type="number" id="contact" name="contact" value="triggerBody()['Createfile_FileName']"><br><br>


</body>
</html>
')

I just started doing powerapp and I tried doing it on the Form submission HTML but I don't know what am i doing wrong?

Hello Shane, any idea how to convert HTML to a word doc (.docx) without a premium connector? People I work with like to edit the doc they're creating and the export from PDF to Word (which they have to do manually) messes with the formatting, adding section breaks to the bottom of each page. Love the vids!

This is beautiful!!! Thank you so much for sharing this Shane!!

Shane, thank you so much for this and all the great videos that have made Power Apps truly accessible to me in my job. I was able to use a "Get Row by ID" function in the flow, add its output to my HTML, and get dynamic values from Dataverse (even LookUps) to populate in my PDF. Now I can export a PDF with all the Dataverse record's fields. So cool, and useful. Cheers!

Great tutorial, thanks! Would you know how to turn left the pdf page?

Hello Shane - Great video! Thank you so much for all the videos you put up, helps a lot!!! I have a question, I have a rich text box which our end users want to add image along with the text (not always and not the names number of images). What can I do in this situation?