Learn PowerApps and Flow - Generating PDFs from PowerApps

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Many of you have requested the infrastructural design that needs to be implemented within PowerApps to successfully generate PDFs from within the application. I've finally come out with a tutorial on how to do it! The prerequisite to this video is my "Autofill Template" tutorials that I will link below. After you watch that video, come watch this video to finish off educating yourself on how to make those PDF documents!
How are we doing this? Basically, we are taking documents that we have already generated from the original flow that we created in "Autofill Templates Tutorial" and appending a section within our flow to convert the document into a PDF. After that, we simply use one more flow step to save the file to any file location we want!
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[@henryouang]

Hi everyone, if you want to be able to do this without PowerApps Premium, I made a new tutorial on how to do this in excel.
The excel version is probably better if you follow the tutorial all the way through. The end product is:
At the click of one button, you can generate 100s of PDFs from excel data (like a csv file).
Check out the demonstration here!
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The tutorial is the video right after my demonstration!

[@parasrajput6839]

Hi, can you show how to translate word or pdf document from source language to target language by using Azure Cognitive service?

[@Jarsvagos]

Hi Henry. Can I do that from Excel. I don’t have word business but I need to create a pdf of a report that I create with power apps

[@luuminhvuong]

Do you know how to create the excel file instead of pdf? As some customers they like excel invoice to use in their work

[@henryouang]

It is possible if you jump through a ton of obstacles but will need a ton of configuration to get an automated excel file generator working. You may need to work between a different company's API connector as well as Microsoft's own (a bit limited) excel connector.

[@ferD8524]

Hi Henry.
OnSelect does not accept drop down list. Is there any solution?

[@jismyjose3418]

How to download the generated pdf from app itself without navigating to sharepoint folder?

[@peyton4president]

Have you had any luck with Image Support?

[@henryouang]

You can include the image within the original word file template, but for dynamic images, there would be more work involved. I haven't tested it out myself, but I imagine you would need to upload the image to a Sharepoint for it to be recognized in PowerApps. I can't think of a functionality where you can upload external images into PowerApps itself.
How I would do it is probably set an image placeholder within the Microsoft Word template, and when doing the auto-generation, the PowerApp would get the image you want in your template from the Sharepoint. This would require you to upload the image directly into the Sharepoint then switch back to PowerApps, which is not very intuitive.

[@henryouang]

You know what, I just remember the "add a picture" media functionality. I haven't tried it personally, but try adding an image placeholder to your Microsoft Word template file and link it up with the "add a picture" image property with your flow. That might work.

[@sammyh92]

Are there any workarounds if a company does not have this connector (due to it being premium)?

[@jdriele]

I would recommend to go to install PrinceXML server in your company (low cost high value, one time, whole compagny)
Then produce HTML+CSS3 with neeed content and layout from your PowerApps (easier than you thnik).
Push the content as two file in a SP folder. Then Configure the server to convert all incoming file.
Create a workflow to return the pdf in the right place.

[@jdriele]

It also possible to create XML directly to be a word document. But require lot of effort for each document

[@TheAmazeer]

@@jdriele salut un serveur prince XML connaissais pas, kezako

[@yuipiyanan8073]

Thank you so much