The quality of the videos, the speed of the delivery and the content has, in my opinion, jumped to a whole other level. These videos are very professionally put together. The animated marker that you're using looks great. Keep it up and a huge thanks for taking the time to inform and educate us.
Reza, here in Brazil we're always talking about the meme "there's always a indian guy on youtube to teach you something you need". But your more than that, your a professional, educator and a live saver. A lot of your work here on this platform, helped me to improve a good part of my business process. Thank you so much!
Hi Reza. I just finished developing my first Power App and used many of the functions you describe in many of your videos. I spent almost a month learning Forms, Galleries, relational sharepoint lists, Patch, and finally PDF(). It is an app that will serve my wife's nutritionists clinical practice. I also developed a few basic apps for my construction management company and people really liked them and adopted them quickly as a standard business practice. I want to thank you for your videos as they have truly been an inspiration to learn and put into practice the concepts you explain so clearly. I feel that I am standing on the shoulders of giants.
I'm thrilled to hear about your successful Power App development journey. It's amazing to see how you've applied the concepts from my videos to create practical solutions. Keep up the fantastic work, and remember, the learning journey is ongoing. Best of luck with your future endeavors.
Honestly: I didn't think you could get any better. But this video is so incredibly full of new things to learn beyond the actual PDf function. Thanks for taking the time to create and share this video!!
Thank you for this great video. This works with Customized Sharepoint forms as well. I added the SharePoint form inside the container and used this formula PDF(yourContainerName,{ExpandContainers:true})). Make sure PDF button is outside the container and Reorder = Bring to front.
@@im02bad this PDF function doesn't work well for Rich text or mutiline text controls. Since it is an experimental function, hopefully it will improve in the future.
Great Job again Reza!! Congrats!! Please why some pictures don't render in PDF? In my One Page a have 10 pictures (photos from employees) but some doesn't appear when I visualize the PDF. Could you give a hint? In time, happy new year for you and your family.
Thanks! I have not experienced any issue with pictures so not sure. I will recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com/
Another Great Video Reza! As others have said, you are consistently creating very valuable and easy to understand content. In addition to improved user experience this improved my app performance and reduced number of steps in power automate from around 25 down to just 3. I really appreciate all that you do. Thank you!
These videos are amazing, the presentation and how it's explain. These app seem great. do you have any video that shows them in detail. I've watching a lot of your video and also learning a lot from you. I think you're probably one of the best out there when it comes to the power platform. Thank you and keep putting great stuff out there
Thank You so much for your kind words. I do have a detailed video on responsive design with help desk app - th-cam.com/video/1o2L0DADzKQ/w-d-xo.html and gallery designs - th-cam.com/video/bnC8u3gdWss/w-d-xo.html
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Thanks Reza, your videos are great. If I have multiple containers, or screens that I would like to add to one PDF is that possible? something like Screen1, Screen2 and Screen3 would all get separate pages in one PDF?
Everything Reza does is fantastic. I've been too busy this past summer to even look at Office365 stuff. This winter I'll be able to finally finish some Power Apps and Flow projects
Amazing Function to use! Hopefully in a future update they will be able to auto shift gallery items so they do not get split in half across different pages.
Reza, Thank You for a very detail and clear explanation of this new feature. Always enjoy your videos. Hopefully we will see in the very near future UI/UX videos featuring Figma to PowerApps option.
Hi Reza, your power apps videos are really helpful and I have already developed many apps, courtesy your videos. Pertaining to this video subject I want to export multiple containers / galleries available in the same screen, into 1 pdf file. Can this be done..
Thanks Reza, Thank You for a very detail and clear explanation of this new feature,,, I am wondering if we can link the PDF icon to a PDF file already stored in sharepoint... ...
Hi Reza, Thank you for your videos, they have been extremely useful on my journey to building some business apps for our company. I am struggling with one thing though. Following your tutorial has allowed to produce a really nice looking PDF but, I have a pie chart on the screen and when that comes out on the PDF, it is just a black box. Can you suggest where I might be going wrong?
Great video Reza thanks a bunch, I followed your instructions at the end of the video to generate a PDF from a Gallery in Sharepoint with PowerAutomate, it works well but for some reason the content of the PDF is blank, have you seen this before? There are no errors in the flow and I can see the PDF contents inside the PowerApp using the pdfviewer… Thanks
If error is in flow, then you should see what the error message says. I will recommend posting your issue with screenshots on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com/
Great video, as always. Thanks a lot. But gwe have a probleams. Images, stored in sharepoint, and shown in the gallery, are not shown in the pdf. What can be the problem?
Most welcome! I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the cause could be. I recommend posting your issue on forums in case someone has experienced something similar powerusers.microsoft.com
Hello Reza, I greatly appreciate the dynamic content you consistently provide. I've learned a great deal from it. However, I have a curiosity regarding an aspect of your presentations. Could you possibly guide me on how to display multiple galleries in the same PDF viewer? Your insight on this matter would be truly beneficial and highly valued. Thanks in advance.
The way you explain makes the topic more understandable and interesting. I always follow your channel to update my self related to powerapps and power automate. Keep going. You always rocks buddy 🙂
Thanks for sharing all your excellent content. How would I go about printing several documents as a batch into a single PDF file? In my scenario, I have varied file types such as docx, pdf, png, jpg and xlsx. These are stored in a document library and listed in a gallery control.
Great video as always 👍. I have a question though: is this feature meant to be used in production? I am using it to generate a one-page pdf document that catches a container's content. (the pdf generated is 4.5Mb) Thank you very much 🙂
Awesome video, Reza! Really excited about this feature. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but do you know if this function supports nested Galleries? Thanks!
I don’t understand what putting labels as columns means. The pdf function will print what’s in the gallery or container. If you need columns and data, then look into Datatable
Thank you Reza for this great video. Have a query for you . I am unable to export background image from Screen.Is this a bug or something I am not doing correctly?
Thanks Reza. You nailed it again. My questions are like if I am having multiple icons on a form screen and is there a way to exclude them while PDF is getting generated and sending an email to the user ? Also is there any way to combine multiple files (say multiple images) in a Power apps Gallery into a single PDF file?
On click of button, set variable to true -> call pdf function -> set variable to false Use variable to hide things you do not want in pdf. I believe pdf shows all elements on screen. Gallery can be expanded using expand containers option as shown in video.
Reza, thank you soooooo much for this video. I echo others in saying your videos are simply wonderful! For my situation (as for many others), the final step for a PDF is either email (which you cover), or printing. At present, it looks like I can view the PDF Blob in the PDF Viewer, but I cannot push it from there to either print, download, or go to a browser (any of these 3 would help my end user). It looks like all printing requires a file/url at present, but that requires time and bandwidth to process, when all the information is already at hand in the PDF Blob. Am I missing anything in this analysis?
Thanks so much! Print function in Power Apps (have done a separate video on it) is limited to single page printing. Pdf only generates blob. You can email it or store it in a data source and then allow user to download from that location. Im sure there would be some way to download from that generated blob as well but is not something I have investigated on.
Thank you for the response. Sending the blob directly to a print dialog or download (without having to save to a datasource) is my ultimate goal as that would eliminate a step and should theoretically be faster.
Great video! Thank you! Is it possible to expand a gallery that is within a container being targeted for PDF? For example, I have a container with some title/header/graphics above the gallery and I want both included in the PDF. Thanks, again.
Hello Reza. Great vdo as always. 😊 i did followed your vdo to get the PDF of container with both form and gallery of images in attachment, but only the form part is generated with no picture. Could you advise what may have gone wrong? Thank you.
Thank you very much for the information, any question? If I wanted to download that PDF document from the same application screen, it would be possible, I don't know if I'm explaining myself, I don't want to use the pdf viewer, if not download the document, similar to the Print() option. Thank you very much
Thank you for the great video . What if we have multiple tabs with data inside ? Also one of the table two page worth of data and the print function only capture a small portal and i cannot scroll down either .
EXcellent video once again Raza. Thank you so much. I wanted to ask.. I want to pass to the file several parameters (metadata columns) from dropdowns. How to I combine the flow you just show, the extra columns that i would like to populate. I know how to do it using powerapps trigger, but i am bit confused when it comes to the powerapps v2 trigger. Can you please help with an example? Thank you for your prompt reply. Michael
I will have to look at your App in action to provide guidance. I would recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com You could also check my playlist on power apps and power automate integration.
Hi Reza, your videos are great. Very precise and awesomely presented. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I use them as a quick guide when I get stuck :) I have a question. If we have a gallery and each item of this gallery points to a huge record which is displayed in multiple forms each form being displayed in a separate screen. How do I use this PDF function in the gallery to generate a pdf for the whole record.
Thank you for your reply @@RezaDorrani . I was able to achieve this today by a work around. I've created another app and added all the forms in one container to generate pdf . This app can be called through launch function from the main app and serves only the purpose of pdf generation. Might not be the best way to work it out but achieves the target :)
Hi Reza, another great tutorial as ever, thank you. Is it possible to generate multiple screens into one pdf using pdf viewer or email multiple screens as one pdf attachment? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I love your videos. They are so clear and easy to use. I have tried some other videos but they are not as good as yours. Is there a way I can send the email to a different email address other then the users email?
Hello Reza, Thank you for this wonderful walkthrough session. A quick question: I am unable to use a DataTable inside Containers in order to create a PDF of that Table. Any guidance on that would be very helpful. Thanks in advance! :)
Great video! This worked perfectly for what I needed however, I am saving the PDF in SharePoint & am looking to set the file name as a unique data card value rather than just the text set name, do you have any insight on this? :)
Nice. Do you have insight on how this will work with multi line text boxes? I’m wondering about a text based report scenarios where we may have implemented page screens in the past for printing to PDF. Please report sizes are limited by the page screen real estate so I’m wondering if this PDF functionality can get around that and still provide a structured format.
Thank you for this Reza, it really helped me out, as your videos always do. I wonder if you have heard or found that the Expand parameter has no effect on flexible height galleries, as has been my experience. Switching gallery from flexible height to any other format fixes the issue where gallery content off the page didn't appear in PDF. Hope it saves someone a bunch of troubleshooting time.
Hello Reza! Great video! This helped me out a lot! I’m trying to pdf multiple screens at once in one pdf. Is that possible? Would forall help me? Thank you!
This is awesome, as I recently was using the Print function and having people save it themselves instead of automating it (didn’t want to go through the OneDrive method). Can you include multiple containers or screens into a PDF? Or would I just have to make an additional screen/container with everything I would want from multiple screens and push that one screen/container through the PDF function?
So even if I had a container with everything I wanted in the PDF, it needs to be visible or just listed active screen? In other words, is it possible to push a hidden container to a PDF as long as it is a part of the active screen?
@@jonathanwalker2543 Cannot be hidden. Must be actively visible. You can always set a variable on button click which makes it visible, then take pdf and then set visible to false.
Apart from PDF function, one more important thing i learned is, inserting data table in containers. Its a huge relief. And Can you also tell me, how to insert pdf viewer in containers? Thanks in Advance!! Thanks for the Awsome video. Thank you so much Reza!!
Hi Rena, Another great video. I was able to create a PDF for all my gallery items but after adding a filter it only passes the data on the power apps screen? The other pages in the PDF are blank
Thanks for watching and liking the video. You should check the filter logic. I will have to look at your App in action to provide guidance. I recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Hi Reza, issues resolved. Turned out it wasn’t the filters causing the issue. I just need to add expand containers and now it works a dream. Thanks again for great tutorials, helps me greatly to build apps👍
Hello Reza, thanks so much for all those instructive video... Have a question , at 10:24 , your showing variable VarItem.Title ..How do we get this variable works ...Thanks !
Thanks , but it is in the Forms from Sharepoint ... Only have Screens, gallery is forr my specifics ... I just want a way to save the item in the Sharepoint in PDF , with the actual name of the item , not as testPDF as shown ... Sorry , I'm beginner , I'm trying so hatd to understand ..! Thanks
Hi Reza, great video thank you for this! I created the Container based example you show here, but sometimes it doesn't show all attached photos in the final PDF file, even when the photos are visible in the SharePoint list and in the example in the app. Any idea how to solve this?
I have not experienced this issue. My guess is that It depends on how photos are displayed. Image column, URL, direct embed in app etc. Pdf is a preview feature so there would be limitations. Check the documentation or alternatively check on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
You always nailed it and your videos demonstration are so easy to understand and implement. I tried to find the function to enable it but couldn't find in my environment. Is there any reason for it? and does this new function work on Forms?
Thank you Reza! You are an extraordinary human being for sharing so much knowledge. If I may ask, how could I fit the galley into one pdf page? I have the container in true. I receive 2 pages one with part of most of the gallery and second page in blank.
Hi Reza, Great video! I have a one-page form that is separated into 4 containers, each with a gallery to expand. Is there a formula that allows multiple containers when creating the PDF?
Thanks so much for those perfectly designed tutorial. It´s really helpful for me. I just have an issue with the PDF that is sent by mail. The size of the PDF is very important 8MB for a PDF of a Screen Form. How can i reduce the size of the PDF? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Great video. Is there a way to expand a container to fill the page in the PDF viewer. My container comes in as its size, but I want it to fill the page.
@Reza, thanks for the video. Not sure if it is a bug, but I've noticed it removes the selected radio button value once PDF function is invoked, the rest or next record will also be affected as well.
This is awesome. Your instruction is very clear and concise. I have 10 screens I would like to create as a summary pdf of a completed project. Each screen uses a form and your Attachment viewer. I am wondering if multiple screens can be listed in the blob?
@@RezaDorrani What if a separate flow creates a folder in a SP library, then this PDF flow sends each screen's PDF to the folder, and then a separate flow combines multiple pdfs?
@@RezaDorrani I figured out how to get the attachments to show up. I had to change the Image in the gallery to ThisItem.Value. It was ThisItem.AbsoluteUri from the custom viewer. I have HTML text fields in the form so those didn't show up using this method. Had to insert an HTML control and use a table to grab the content of those fields. And I am adding every screen's info to the table so the result is 1 pdf. The only thing missing is the content of attachments that are documents or excel files. Any insight on that?
Hi Reza, great video. Question please, I took advantage of the encodeuri option in the past, with pdf viewing sharepoint document libraries, 2 see office and pdfs. Does this option at all take advantage of sharepoint document libraries instead of using, if .pdf consider encodeuri?
Thanks, a lot for your videos Reza, these helps me a lot truly you are genius, I have a one question what if we want to open it directly in our desktop viewer application instead of opening it in power apps, can we achieve that as well? hope my question makes sense.
@@RezaDorrani thanks for your response, I have one more question, how can we watermark image in compose html action in power automate flow? further just for the info "DataUri" sometimes don't display images when sending pdf in email as attachment, instead I am using base64 encoding to render images and it works seamlessly.
@@zami89-b7i I have not tried to watermark an image hence not sure. I recommend checking on forums in case someone has done something similar powerusers.microsoft.com
Thank you verymuch Reza , This will reduce lot of work on my new project 😍😍. Unforchunatly , "Power BI Tiles" Not Convering to pdf ( No error, but blank screen ). Any solution / workaround ?
Thank you for a great and helpful video! But i want to ask, can I set the PDF name with variables (for example : Help Desk Stephanie --> connected with inputted name)? Because if we set a static text, the file will be replaced everytime I create the PDF. Thank you ^^
Thank you so much as always, Reza. I am so bummed because it’s not printing the contents of my screen, only the screen header, when I select the screen. I need to print the gallery and some other fields that are part of the entire screen as a PDF. Regardless, thank you as always for the amazing content.
Game changing function. Thanks for the video, Reza. One question though, actually two: 1. it looks like the page splitting is done randomly, cutting items in half, is there a way to prevent that at the moment? 2. at 7:50 the datatable has the header purple and the selected item purple-ish, but the end result PDF has both of them full purple, is this a bug?
1 - I don’t think page breaks can be defined with this method. 2 - I did notice that the header color was getting applied to first row. This is a bug which hopefully would be fixed.
Hello Reza. Thanks for such a great video. I have a question: how can I send the PDF of the screen to a specific column of my sharepoint list ? Thanks 🙏
@@RezaDorrani let me explain myself better: when I create a report and save it as PDF, is there a way to add it as an attachment for the corresponding record in my sharepoint list ? Thanks
Hello Reza, this video was a huge help with building a visitor documentation app. I'm using a SharePoint list as my data source to store a few fields of data and I was able to generate an email with the PDF's of the various screens attached. What I haven't been able to do is save a copy of the PDF files back to the SharePoint list. I did not use a form to gather and display the data, I'm using Patch to save the data fields to my SharePoint list. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
@@lauranliam I do not have any specific video on it and would have to try it out to provide the steps . I recommend posting or checking on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Awesome video as usual Reza. I tried this out but I noticed it doesn't show multiline text also when sending email, you can use set the expandedcontainer to true. Is this a limitation?
Thanks for this tutorial video of PDF function. I have one question 1. Is it possible to print tabular data with header repeating in every page with this PDF function? Can you guide us why this feature is not showing in my power apps settings.
1 - feature is in preview. You need to be on latest app authoring version. 2 - header repeating in every page is a limitation since we need control on pave breaks which we do not have (as far as I know)
I can only imagine how many of us waited for this feature. I designed a Time Off calendar that looks beautiful on screen, but there has never been a way to PDF that calendar and email to a user. I settled on a flow to "recreate" the calendar screen with a ton of "Append to variables" to build up an HTML page. Works okay, but is a bit complicated and takes 1 minute to run. I'm hoping this will help me kill that flow and speed things up. In early playing, I see you can't PDF another screen. It has to be the current screen you're on. So, will see if I can navigate screens, PDF, then navigate back.
Great work Reza! Quick question, we have 1 screen with a container and we are trying to create an Invoice sheet. We can get the pdf to generate our only problem is we have a blank page 2. No matter if we reduce the size or fix to just one element we always have a blank page 2. Any ideas?
Your videos are awesome I am a newby and hack so your videos have helped immensely. I have borrowed your code from 6:53 of your video and I can get a pdf to email to myself but the pdf does not display the colors of the header correctly or the border around the boxes on my form. I am also wondering if there is a way to have the pdf filename set to the text from one of the values stored in one of the inputs on the form.
Most welcome! I'm not sure why the colors won't come through. I have not experienced that. I have done a newer video on pdf function. Try and see if that has something more to offer.
Thanks for sharing Reza! Quick question over here. On a button’s OnSelect property, I navigate to another screen with a container, PDF the container, and send it via email using the Outlook connection, and eventually navigate back to the initial screen receiving notifications after each stage. What I’ve mentioned works well in Edit mode, but when app is in Run mode, I just receive all the notifications at once without any actions taking place. Any idea why?
I have not come across this issue and hence not sure what is the cause for your issue. I recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
This is a great video, as always. Do you know if generating a pdf from multiple controls will work with flexible height galleries? I just asked the Power App community the same question, so hopefully, I'll get an answer back there. Since you already had a great video on the expandable control, I thought I would ask you also in case you might know. I've got a similar report, but works like an excel report with varying height for the comments so the verticle gallery doesn't work. I just can't get the flexible height gallery to go to the second page or it cuts off rows mid-sentence (when the flexible height gallery wasn't set to fill the page). Maybe you are aware of a different approach to saving an Excel-like report to pdf?
@@RezaDorrani Thanks for the info. I'm finding the same in my research. If I find otherwise, I'll let you know. My workaround is to build a report in Microsoft Access for now.
As Usual you nailed this feature with perfect explanation and easy to understand language my dear friend Reza even a common man like me can understand in a cleaner way. Keep doing videos like these.
Thanks so much. I do not have a step by step video on this app. I did use it in various videos though. Example: th-cam.com/video/1o2L0DADzKQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qQSHepUmN4iD458O
This is a great video. As always your videos are very informative. I was looking this function. Would you kind to make a learning video on how to Use Power apps Warp to create native apps for Android. I have an app created and I want to make it a native app instead of installing Power Apps.
Thanks! I make videos when I get multiple requests on a particular topic. Every quarter I ask subscribers for topic suggestions on the Community Tab of my TH-cam channel. Subscribers vote for topics and the highest voted topics get added to my backlog. Make sure you post this in the next topic suggestion post. If it gets a lot of votes, I will add it to my backlog.
Hello Reza, amazing content as usual, keep up the hard work, just a quick question, is there any possible way to print the line chart to a pdf, when I do that, it converts the whole chart to black, thank you.
Another great video, Reza. Unfortunately I couldn't follow along as I normally do as it appears the PDF function is now showing in the Settings, under Experimental as yet (I guess it's just been released so not in most Tenants as yet). Will come back to it and try it out as soon as it appears. Thanks for sharing. Really handy feature it promises to be. 😀
Hi Reza, I appreciate your videos so much! They are always extremely informative and detailed, you are a GREAT teacher!!! Do you have tips on how to create page breaks in the PDF? I'm using HTML and pen input controls for a signed agreement and I'm having issues with the page breaks. At times a line of text is split in such a way that the top of the text is on the bottom of one page and the bottom of the text (for the same line of text) shows on the next one.
Thanks Mona! Page break is currently not a feature of the PDF Function. You would need to look into 3rd party premium actions that offer advanced pdf generation capabilities.
@@MonaVelazquez Actually for anyone looking for this, found the solution, you have to set a certain height to your page something like this in your HTML before inputting your data: Problem is now if your content is dynamic, it will break after the 1866 px, in that case you can set this if you want to avoid it to break in between your table or something like that: but that's as far as I managed to make it.
Thanks for the great content Reza. I recently built a whole MS Flow to export an entire APP to PDF, save it to SharePoint, then return the download link to PowerApps so that it opens in a new Tab. Will give this a try. Do not see it in the list of 'Upcoming features yet' but guess that depends on your region etc?
@@sportstop5 Maybe you can activate it... Open your App, click Settings, click Support, there is an EDIT-Button for the "Build"-Version (Erstellungsversion in German). There you can set it to the newest Version, in my case (Germany) 3.22101.10
Hello Reza. I'm using this function to generate PDF and then send by flow to SharePoint library, thanks for Your great videos. But... from time to time (now almost always) it doesn't work and says the app has been unexpectedly closed, because there's a lack of temp memory. Do You have any idea how to solve this issue?
I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the fix for your issue is. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Hi Reza, nice video, how about having header and footer to all the pages in pdf? also can I use multiple containers to generate one pdf? Basically I am building quotes, with multiple pages which involves header and footer on all the pages, how do I go about that using powerapps?
Pdf function does not support header and footer. It has limited functionality. You can pdf an entire screen by pointing to parent container. Multi screen pdf is not supported
Thank you so much for your videos !!! I tried to send a mail including the form control, and it seems the pdf generated only shows the first "row" of data cards in the Form control, if the data cards in the form control are organized in more than one row (in you example it is one row), only the first row is shown in the pdf. Am I doing something wrong?
Hello Reza, may I have a question? I added an pen input (to get a signature) in the home screen, but when I made it as a pdf file and saved it in Sharepoint, the pen input was all black. I can't see the signature. Is there any solutions? When I print it (print()), I can see the signature, but when I use the pdf file, I can't see the signature. Thank you so much all the time. You are the best of the best!!
One of the demos in the video includes pen input control. I take the data from pen input and store it as list item attachments. Then I use output of pdf function and send pdf blob to flow which stores data in a file. Note: the pdf function is experimental and could very well have some limitations (documented or undocumented).
Hi Reza, thank you for a great video. I followed your steps and was able to generate a pdf file and emailed it to the current user from PowerApps design environment, however after published it is working anymore, it says PDF creation fail. Can you help me with it? TIA
Great! I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the fix for your issue is. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
The quality of the videos, the speed of the delivery and the content has, in my opinion, jumped to a whole other level. These videos are very professionally put together. The animated marker that you're using looks great. Keep it up and a huge thanks for taking the time to inform and educate us.
Wow, Thank You so much! Your feedback has made me so happy.
A lot of effort goes into creating and editing the content.
@@RezaDorrani it shows! Thank you for your hard work and for sharing your knowledge!!!
Reza, here in Brazil we're always talking about the meme "there's always a indian guy on youtube to teach you something you need".
But your more than that, your a professional, educator and a live saver. A lot of your work here on this platform, helped me to improve a good part of my business process.
Thank you so much!
Thank You for all the 💗 & support
Hi Reza. I just finished developing my first Power App and used many of the functions you describe in many of your videos. I spent almost a month learning Forms, Galleries, relational sharepoint lists, Patch, and finally PDF(). It is an app that will serve my wife's nutritionists clinical practice. I also developed a few basic apps for my construction management company and people really liked them and adopted them quickly as a standard business practice. I want to thank you for your videos as they have truly been an inspiration to learn and put into practice the concepts you explain so clearly. I feel that I am standing on the shoulders of giants.
I'm thrilled to hear about your successful Power App development journey. It's amazing to see how you've applied the concepts from my videos to create practical solutions. Keep up the fantastic work, and remember, the learning journey is ongoing. Best of luck with your future endeavors.
Honestly: I didn't think you could get any better. But this video is so incredibly full of new things to learn beyond the actual PDf function. Thanks for taking the time to create and share this video!!
Wow! Thanks for the awesome feedback Reiner.
Dear Mr. Reza, you are always my barrier breaker in my Power Apps journey, thank you so much for this video.
My pleasure
Thank you for this great video. This works with Customized Sharepoint forms as well. I added the SharePoint form inside the container and used this formula PDF(yourContainerName,{ExpandContainers:true})). Make sure PDF button is outside the container and Reorder = Bring to front.
Thanks Ranjit for sharing the SharePoint customized list forms scenario.
Thank you, I was going mad to find a solution.
@@im02bad this PDF function doesn't work well for Rich text or mutiline text controls. Since it is an experimental function, hopefully it will improve in the future.
Great tutorial. I spent 24 hours trying to get the PDF stored in sharepoint document library. Thanks for detailed tutorial.
You're welcome!
Great Job again Reza!! Congrats!! Please why some pictures don't render in PDF? In my One Page a have 10 pictures (photos from employees) but some doesn't appear when I visualize the PDF. Could you give a hint? In time, happy new year for you and your family.
Thanks! I have not experienced any issue with pictures so not sure. I will recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com/
Power Apps just keeps getting better and better. Love this feature, thanks for sharing Reza 👍
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching Gerard.
Another Great Video Reza! As others have said, you are consistently creating very valuable and easy to understand content. In addition to improved user experience this improved my app performance and reduced number of steps in power automate from around 25 down to just 3. I really appreciate all that you do. Thank you!
Thank You for the feedback and glad to hear about the performance improvements.
These videos are amazing, the presentation and how it's explain. These app seem great. do you have any video that shows them in detail. I've watching a lot of your video and also learning a lot from you. I think you're probably one of the best out there when it comes to the power platform. Thank you and keep putting great stuff out there
Thank You so much for your kind words.
I do have a detailed video on responsive design with help desk app - th-cam.com/video/1o2L0DADzKQ/w-d-xo.html and gallery designs - th-cam.com/video/bnC8u3gdWss/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Reza, your videos are great.
If I have multiple containers, or screens that I would like to add to one PDF is that possible?
something like Screen1, Screen2 and Screen3 would all get separate pages in one PDF?
Most welcome!
Pdf function only works for single screens.
Everything Reza does is fantastic. I've been too busy this past summer to even look at Office365 stuff. This winter I'll be able to finally finish some Power Apps and Flow projects
Thank You Carl
@@RezaDorrani Telling facts.
Amazing Function to use! Hopefully in a future update they will be able to auto shift gallery items so they do not get split in half across different pages.
Great feedback! I will let the team know.
@@RezaDorrani any solution for this? I need professional invoices that can be many pages long, I cant have values being cut in half
Reza, Thank You for a very detail and clear explanation of this new feature. Always enjoy your videos. Hopefully we will see in the very near future UI/UX videos featuring Figma to PowerApps option.
In my backlog which is growing by the day.
@@RezaDorrani its nice to be wanted.
Hi Reza, your power apps videos are really helpful and I have already developed many apps, courtesy your videos. Pertaining to this video subject I want to export multiple containers / galleries available in the same screen, into 1 pdf file. Can this be done..
Thanks so much for watching and listening the videos.
Same screen should be possible. You need to directly export screen to pdf in that case.
Thanks Reza, Thank You for a very detail and clear explanation of this new feature,,, I am wondering if we can link the PDF icon to a PDF file already stored in sharepoint... ...
Probably possible. Use Launch function to launch that file url onselect of icon.
Hi Reza, Thank you for your videos, they have been extremely useful on my journey to building some business apps for our company. I am struggling with one thing though. Following your tutorial has allowed to produce a really nice looking PDF but, I have a pie chart on the screen and when that comes out on the PDF, it is just a black box. Can you suggest where I might be going wrong?
Pie charts are not supported in pdf. Check documentation for limitations in pdf function.
Great video Reza thanks a bunch, I followed your instructions at the end of the video to generate a PDF from a Gallery in Sharepoint with PowerAutomate, it works well but for some reason the content of the PDF is blank, have you seen this before? There are no errors in the flow and I can see the PDF contents inside the PowerApp using the pdfviewer… Thanks
If error is in flow, then you should see what the error message says. I will recommend posting your issue with screenshots on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com/
Great video, as always. Thanks a lot. But gwe have a probleams. Images, stored in sharepoint, and shown in the gallery, are not shown in the pdf. What can be the problem?
Most welcome!
I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the cause could be.
I recommend posting your issue on forums in case someone has experienced something similar powerusers.microsoft.com
Hello Reza,
I greatly appreciate the dynamic content you consistently provide. I've learned a great deal from it. However, I have a curiosity regarding an aspect of your presentations. Could you possibly guide me on how to display multiple galleries in the same PDF viewer? Your insight on this matter would be truly beneficial and highly valued. Thanks in advance.
Most welcome!
Pdf only works on single screen.
This is the only video reference I have.
Hi Reza, Thank you for a detail and clear explanation . Always enjoy your videos and learn new things. Really appreciated!
My pleasure!
The way you explain makes the topic more understandable and interesting. I always follow your channel to update my self related to powerapps and power automate. Keep going. You always rocks buddy 🙂
Thank You so much
Thank you!
I hope they keep adding more pdf functions in the future. Like putting a text or image to an existing pdf file.
Let’s wait and watch 😊
Thanks for sharing all your excellent content. How would I go about printing several documents as a batch into a single PDF file? In my scenario, I have varied file types such as docx, pdf, png, jpg and xlsx. These are stored in a document library and listed in a gallery control.
Pdf supports single screen only. No batch processing actions available.
Great video as always 👍.
I have a question though: is this feature meant to be used in production? I am using it to generate a one-page pdf document that catches a container's content. (the pdf generated is 4.5Mb)
Thank you very much 🙂
Its a feature thats in preview. Its a decision that you would have to make wether you want to use in production.
@@RezaDorrani thank you 👍
Awesome video, Reza! Really excited about this feature. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but do you know if this function supports nested Galleries?
Thanks!
I have not tried with nested galleries. I avoid nested galleries :)
When you try it, do let me know.
Tried this, works wonderfully! Is there any workaround for putting the labels as columns if the listing is from gallery?
I don’t understand what putting labels as columns means. The pdf function will print what’s in the gallery or container.
If you need columns and data, then look into Datatable
Thank you Reza for this great video. Have a query for you . I am unable to export background image from Screen.Is this a bug or something I am not doing correctly?
Have not experienced any issues with it so not sure. I recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Thank you for the content, Reza!
Is there a way to generate Power Point? If not a straight way, then perhaps a workaround?
I am not aware of any option to make PowerPoint. I recommend checking on forums in case someone has done something similar
powerusers.microsoft.com
Thanks Reza. You nailed it again.
My questions are like if I am having multiple icons on a form screen and is there a way to exclude them while PDF is getting generated and sending an email to the user ?
Also is there any way to combine multiple files (say multiple images) in a Power apps Gallery into a single PDF file?
On click of button, set variable to true -> call pdf function -> set variable to false
Use variable to hide things you do not want in pdf.
I believe pdf shows all elements on screen. Gallery can be expanded using expand containers option as shown in video.
Reza, thank you soooooo much for this video. I echo others in saying your videos are simply wonderful! For my situation (as for many others), the final step for a PDF is either email (which you cover), or printing. At present, it looks like I can view the PDF Blob in the PDF Viewer, but I cannot push it from there to either print, download, or go to a browser (any of these 3 would help my end user). It looks like all printing requires a file/url at present, but that requires time and bandwidth to process, when all the information is already at hand in the PDF Blob. Am I missing anything in this analysis?
Thanks so much!
Print function in Power Apps (have done a separate video on it) is limited to single page printing.
Pdf only generates blob. You can email it or store it in a data source and then allow user to download from that location.
Im sure there would be some way to download from that generated blob as well but is not something I have investigated on.
Thank you for the response. Sending the blob directly to a print dialog or download (without having to save to a datasource) is my ultimate goal as that would eliminate a step and should theoretically be faster.
@@brucethiessen5972 I understand. Not sure if there is a way though. If I get a lot more folks requesting this, Il plan to investigate on this.
Great video! Thank you!
Is it possible to expand a gallery that is within a container being targeted for PDF?
For example, I have a container with some title/header/graphics above the gallery and I want both included in the PDF.
Thanks, again.
You can target container for pdf control.
All controls within container would be part of the generated pdf.
Hello Reza. Great vdo as always. 😊 i did followed your vdo to get the PDF of container with both form and gallery of images in attachment, but only the form part is generated with no picture. Could you advise what may have gone wrong? Thank you.
I have not come across this issue hence not sure. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Thank you very much for the information, any question? If I wanted to download that PDF document from the same application screen, it would be possible, I don't know if I'm explaining myself, I don't want to use the pdf viewer, if not download the document, similar to the Print() option.
Thank you very much
Currently, it is a limitation.
Thank you for the great video . What if we have multiple tabs with data inside ? Also one of the table two page worth of data and the print function only capture a small portal and i cannot scroll down either .
Print only works for single screen.
You would need to flatten out tabs in a single screen.
Hidden sections wont show up.
EXcellent video once again Raza. Thank you so much. I wanted to ask.. I want to pass to the file several parameters (metadata columns) from dropdowns. How to I combine the flow you just show, the extra columns that i would like to populate. I know how to do it using powerapps trigger, but i am bit confused when it comes to the powerapps v2 trigger. Can you please help with an example? Thank you for your prompt reply.
Michael
I will have to look at your App in action to provide guidance. I would recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
You could also check my playlist on power apps and power automate integration.
Hi Reza, your videos are great. Very precise and awesomely presented. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I use them as a quick guide when I get stuck :)
I have a question. If we have a gallery and each item of this gallery points to a huge record which is displayed in multiple forms each form being displayed in a separate screen. How do I use this PDF function in the gallery to generate a pdf for the whole record.
Most welcome!
Pdf only supports elements in current screen.
Cross screen is not supported.
Thank you for your reply @@RezaDorrani . I was able to achieve this today by a work around. I've created another app and added all the forms in one container to generate pdf . This app can be called through launch function from the main app and serves only the purpose of pdf generation. Might not be the best way to work it out but achieves the target :)
Ive been stuck with the idea for days, thank you so much! Please, how can i send a pdf from a container?
Most welcome!
Don’t remember if pdf can be targeted to a container. Check the documentation.
Hi Reza, another great tutorial as ever, thank you. Is it possible to generate multiple screens into one pdf using pdf viewer or email multiple screens as one pdf attachment?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Currently, pdf function only supports single screen.
I love your videos. They are so clear and easy to use. I have tried some other videos but they are not as good as yours.
Is there a way I can send the email to a different email address other then the users email?
Thank You!
You can add a text box where user can enter email and use that value to send the email to.
Hello Reza, Thank you for this wonderful walkthrough session.
A quick question: I am unable to use a DataTable inside Containers in order to create a PDF of that Table.
Any guidance on that would be very helpful. Thanks in advance! :)
I don’t exactly remember but I think I put a label control inside container and then copy and paste a datatable inside the container.
Just want to thank you as always for helping me learn so many new features that are hard to keep up with. You are a rockstar!
Thank You
Great video! This worked perfectly for what I needed however, I am saving the PDF in SharePoint & am looking to set the file name as a unique data card value rather than just the text set name, do you have any insight on this? :)
You have complete control over the file name. Since you are creating file from flow, you can call it what you want.
Nice. Do you have insight on how this will work with multi line text boxes? I’m wondering about a text based report scenarios where we may have implemented page screens in the past for printing to PDF. Please report sizes are limited by the page screen real estate so I’m wondering if this PDF functionality can get around that and still provide a structured format.
ExpandContainers option works with data tables, galleries, scrollable screens etc.
I have not tested with multi line text boxes.
Thank you for this Reza, it really helped me out, as your videos always do. I wonder if you have heard or found that the Expand parameter has no effect on flexible height galleries, as has been my experience. Switching gallery from flexible height to any other format fixes the issue where gallery content off the page didn't appear in PDF. Hope it saves someone a bunch of troubleshooting time.
Flexible height are not supported. Documentation must have the limitations called out.
Hello Reza! Great video! This helped me out a lot!
I’m trying to pdf multiple screens at once in one pdf. Is that possible? Would forall help me?
Thank you!
Only single screen for now!
This is awesome, as I recently was using the Print function and having people save it themselves instead of automating it (didn’t want to go through the OneDrive method). Can you include multiple containers or screens into a PDF? Or would I just have to make an additional screen/container with everything I would want from multiple screens and push that one screen/container through the PDF function?
You can only target 1 control.
The control must be on the screen from where pdf function is being executed.
So even if I had a container with everything I wanted in the PDF, it needs to be visible or just listed active screen? In other words, is it possible to push a hidden container to a PDF as long as it is a part of the active screen?
@@jonathanwalker2543 Cannot be hidden. Must be actively visible.
You can always set a variable on button click which makes it visible, then take pdf and then set visible to false.
Apart from PDF function, one more important thing i learned is, inserting data table in containers. Its a huge relief. And Can you also tell me, how to insert pdf viewer in containers?
Thanks in Advance!!
Thanks for the Awsome video. Thank you so much Reza!!
I have not tired inserting pdf in containers.
Hi Rena, Another great video. I was able to create a PDF for all my gallery items but after adding a filter it only passes the data on the power apps screen? The other pages in the PDF are blank
Thanks for watching and liking the video.
You should check the filter logic. I will have to look at your App in action to provide guidance. I recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Hi Reza, issues resolved. Turned out it wasn’t the filters causing the issue. I just need to add expand containers and now it works a dream. Thanks again for great tutorials, helps me greatly to build apps👍
Hello Reza, thanks so much for all those instructive video... Have a question , at 10:24 , your showing variable VarItem.Title ..How do we get this variable works ...Thanks !
This variable is set when user selects item in gallery. VarItem is set to ThisItem
Thanks , but it is in the Forms from Sharepoint ... Only have Screens, gallery is forr my specifics ... I just want a way to save the item in the Sharepoint in PDF , with the actual name of the item , not as testPDF as shown ... Sorry , I'm beginner , I'm trying so hatd to understand ..! Thanks
@@ericbeaudin3741 Sorry I do not understand. I would recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Hello Reza!Thanks for this wonderful video!!Could you please guide on how to export this pdf and stor e locally instead of SharePoint/onedrive?
Check th-cam.com/users/shortsIGZc022MI_o?feature=share
Thank you very much for the great video. I have a question, can I also make different galleries of different screens in one PDF?
PDF function does not allow references to controls on other screens.
I tried this scenario already :)
Hi Reza, great video thank you for this! I created the Container based example you show here, but sometimes it doesn't show all attached photos in the final PDF file, even when the photos are visible in the SharePoint list and in the example in the app. Any idea how to solve this?
I have not experienced this issue. My guess is that It depends on how photos are displayed. Image column, URL, direct embed in app etc.
Pdf is a preview feature so there would be limitations. Check the documentation or alternatively check on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
You always nailed it and your videos demonstration are so easy to understand and implement. I tried to find the function to enable it but couldn't find in my environment. Is there any reason for it? and does this new function work on Forms?
app authoring version needs to be latest + feature may not yet be available in your region.
Thank you Reza! You are an extraordinary human being for sharing so much knowledge. If I may ask, how could I fit the galley into one pdf page? I have the container in true. I receive 2 pages one with part of most of the gallery and second page in blank.
Most welcome.
I think video shows gallery spanning across 2 pages.
I found the error, however, I cannot fit the small gallery (14 lines) into one page only.
@@moisestatis5418 There is no option for page adjustment. If it exceeds a page size, it will go onto next page. That is by design.
Appreciate very much your reply.
Hi Reza, Great video! I have a one-page form that is separated into 4 containers, each with a gallery to expand. Is there a formula that allows multiple containers when creating the PDF?
Only works with single containers.
Thanks so much for those perfectly designed tutorial. It´s really helpful for me. I just have an issue with the PDF that is sent by mail. The size of the PDF is very important 8MB for a PDF of a Screen Form. How can i reduce the size of the PDF? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
PDF size will be dependent upon number of controls in screen or component marked for pdf generation. Images would add to the size as well.
Thanks a lot Reza! Top notch explanation as always.
Since PDF() function is experimental, would you recommend to use it in production applications?
When in preview, then you can use it in production.
When experimental, No.
@@RezaDorrani Thanks for the reply! I couldn't see this feature in my app settings. Is it being available in specific regions only?
@@kireetiyakkali Make sure app authoring version is latest.
Great video. Is there a way to expand a container to fill the page in the PDF viewer. My container comes in as its size, but I want it to fill the page.
I have shown expand container in video. I believe it works with controls that expand within (example: gallery, form etc.)
@Reza, thanks for the video. Not sure if it is a bug, but I've noticed it removes the selected radio button value once PDF function is invoked, the rest or next record will also be affected as well.
Might be. Its a preview feature.
This is awesome. Your instruction is very clear and concise. I have 10 screens I would like to create as a summary pdf of a completed project. Each screen uses a form and your Attachment viewer. I am wondering if multiple screens can be listed in the blob?
Pdf function currently supports single screen only
@@RezaDorrani ok, thank you for a quick reply.
@@RezaDorrani What if a separate flow creates a folder in a SP library, then this PDF flow sends each screen's PDF to the folder, and then a separate flow combines multiple pdfs?
@@marieraymond6512 Possible
@@RezaDorrani I figured out how to get the attachments to show up. I had to change the Image in the gallery to ThisItem.Value. It was ThisItem.AbsoluteUri from the custom viewer. I have HTML text fields in the form so those didn't show up using this method. Had to insert an HTML control and use a table to grab the content of those fields. And I am adding every screen's info to the table so the result is 1 pdf. The only thing missing is the content of attachments that are documents or excel files. Any insight on that?
Hey Reza, great content as usual. How can you moduy the Send PDF as attachment in an email function to send to the users manager?
Use office 365 users to connector to get current users manager
Hi Reza, great video. Question please, I took advantage of the encodeuri option in the past, with pdf viewing sharepoint document libraries, 2 see office and pdfs. Does this option at all take advantage of sharepoint document libraries instead of using, if .pdf consider encodeuri?
This is a native function. It can generate pdfs from power apps controls only.
@@RezaDorrani Cools thanks for the insight.
Thanks, a lot for your videos Reza, these helps me a lot truly you are genius, I have a one question what if we want to open it directly in our desktop viewer application instead of opening it in power apps, can we achieve that as well? hope my question makes sense.
Since file is created locally within apps,
Pdf viewer is our only option unless you first save the pdf file to SharePoint or Onedrive.
@@RezaDorrani thanks for your response, I have one more question, how can we watermark image in compose html action in power automate flow? further just for the info "DataUri" sometimes don't display images when sending pdf in email as attachment, instead I am using base64 encoding to render images and it works seamlessly.
@@zami89-b7i I have not tried to watermark an image hence not sure. I recommend checking on forums in case someone has done something similar
powerusers.microsoft.com
Thanks Reza! I think this is exactly what I was looking for. I'll give it a try in my app
Great!
Thank you verymuch Reza , This will reduce lot of work on my new project 😍😍. Unforchunatly , "Power BI Tiles" Not Convering to pdf ( No error, but blank screen ). Any solution / workaround ?
Not all controls are supported. Power BI tiles is one of them.
Thank you very much, Does this function well work with Thai language ?
I have not tested with other languages
Thank you for a great and helpful video! But i want to ask, can I set the PDF name with variables (for example : Help Desk Stephanie --> connected with inputted name)? Because if we set a static text, the file will be replaced everytime I create the PDF. Thank you ^^
I believe I was calling flow to create the file. You can always pass another param as the name which can be a variable.
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I agree :)
Thank you so much as always, Reza. I am so bummed because it’s not printing the contents of my screen, only the screen header, when I select the screen. I need to print the gallery and some other fields that are part of the entire screen as a PDF. Regardless, thank you as always for the amazing content.
I am not sure why yours is not working.
I recommend posting your issue on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Thank you Reza. I was able to put everything on the page into one container and would print to pdf.
Game changing function. Thanks for the video, Reza.
One question though, actually two: 1. it looks like the page splitting is done randomly, cutting items in half, is there a way to prevent that at the moment? 2. at 7:50 the datatable has the header purple and the selected item purple-ish, but the end result PDF has both of them full purple, is this a bug?
1 - I don’t think page breaks can be defined with this method.
2 - I did notice that the header color was getting applied to first row. This is a bug which hopefully would be fixed.
@@RezaDorrani awesome, thank you, Reza.
Hello Reza. Thanks for such a great video. I have a question: how can I send the PDF of the screen to a specific column of my sharepoint list ? Thanks 🙏
PDF to a column? what type of column is this?
@@RezaDorrani let me explain myself better: when I create a report and save it as PDF, is there a way to add it as an attachment for the corresponding record in my sharepoint list ? Thanks
@@juanestebancardona2852 Possible. Send pdf to flow, and add as attachment to item. I do not have a video reference on this scenario though
Hey Reza, Amazing Video...Thanks for this... Can you please let us know if we can export PowerApps Graphs with this PDF function....
No
Hello Reza, this video was a huge help with building a visitor documentation app. I'm using a SharePoint list as my data source to store a few fields of data and I was able to generate an email with the PDF's of the various screens attached. What I haven't been able to do is save a copy of the PDF files back to the SharePoint list. I did not use a form to gather and display the data, I'm using Patch to save the data fields to my SharePoint list. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Patch does not support attachments. You would either have to use form or flow.
@@RezaDorrani Any suggestions on how to do that with flow?
@@lauranliam I do not have any specific video on it and would have to try it out to provide the steps . I recommend posting or checking on forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
This was a really great video, thanks Reza! I hope the product team can eliminate the need for flow to save or download the converted PDF file!
I agree on the flow part
Awesome video as usual Reza. I tried this out but I noticed it doesn't show multiline text also when sending email, you can use set the expandedcontainer to true. Is this a limitation?
I believe that is a limitation. It's an experimental feature.
@@RezaDorrani A workaround for sending email with the expandedcontainer set to true is leveraging Power Automate to send the email.
@@oluwatobiyusuf 👍
Thanks for this tutorial video of PDF function. I have one question 1. Is it possible to print tabular data with header repeating in every page with this PDF function?
Can you guide us why this feature is not showing in my power apps settings.
1 - feature is in preview. You need to be on latest app authoring version.
2 - header repeating in every page is a limitation since we need control on pave breaks which we do not have (as far as I know)
I can only imagine how many of us waited for this feature. I designed a Time Off calendar that looks beautiful on screen, but there has never been a way to PDF that calendar and email to a user. I settled on a flow to "recreate" the calendar screen with a ton of "Append to variables" to build up an HTML page. Works okay, but is a bit complicated and takes 1 minute to run. I'm hoping this will help me kill that flow and speed things up.
In early playing, I see you can't PDF another screen. It has to be the current screen you're on. So, will see if I can navigate screens, PDF, then navigate back.
Navigate pdf and back would be the option
Great work Reza!
Quick question, we have 1 screen with a container and we are trying to create an Invoice sheet. We can get the pdf to generate our only problem is we have a blank page 2. No matter if we reduce the size or fix to just one element we always have a blank page 2. Any ideas?
This is an experimental feature. I have noticed the blank extra page as well for some scenarios. I believe the team is aware of this.
@@RezaDorrani thanks for the quick reply.
No worries we will resolve with Power Automate for now and hopefully the team can fix this little bug 😀 👍👍
Your videos are awesome I am a newby and hack so your videos have helped immensely. I have borrowed your code from 6:53 of your video and I can get a pdf to email to myself but the pdf does not display the colors of the header correctly or the border around the boxes on my form. I am also wondering if there is a way to have the pdf filename set to the text from one of the values stored in one of the inputs on the form.
Most welcome!
I'm not sure why the colors won't come through. I have not experienced that. I have done a newer video on pdf function. Try and see if that has something more to offer.
Great video Reza, just facing an issue with charts, as they are not showing up in PDF, any idea why when will that be supported?
It's probably because they are not supported. Check documentation of pdf function for limits.
Hi Rezza,
Great contents you put together, hats off to you.
Do you know, if this works with power bi report embedded inside power app.
I tried it with power bi. It does not work.
Thank You Reza for the video on PDF function. I need help, how could we add multiple screens in the same pdf?
Pdf function currently only supports single screen
@@RezaDorrani Thank You for the clarification.
Thanks for sharing Reza!
Quick question over here. On a button’s OnSelect property, I navigate to another screen with a container, PDF the container, and send it via email using the Outlook connection, and eventually navigate back to the initial screen receiving notifications after each stage.
What I’ve mentioned works well in Edit mode, but when app is in Run mode, I just receive all the notifications at once without any actions taking place. Any idea why?
I have not come across this issue and hence not sure what is the cause for your issue. I recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
great video Thanks! i have a gallery with images from web URL, they are not rendering in the PDF, any suggestions? much appreciated.
I have not tried with images from web url. I dont think they would be supported.
This is a great video, as always. Do you know if generating a pdf from multiple controls will work with flexible height galleries? I just asked the Power App community the same question, so hopefully, I'll get an answer back there. Since you already had a great video on the expandable control, I thought I would ask you also in case you might know. I've got a similar report, but works like an excel report with varying height for the comments so the verticle gallery doesn't work. I just can't get the flexible height gallery to go to the second page or it cuts off rows mid-sentence (when the flexible height gallery wasn't set to fill the page). Maybe you are aware of a different approach to saving an Excel-like report to pdf?
I dont think there are any workarounds for cut off rows in PDF function and there are limitations with flexible height galleries.
@@RezaDorrani Thanks for the info. I'm finding the same in my research. If I find otherwise, I'll let you know. My workaround is to build a report in Microsoft Access for now.
As Usual you nailed this feature with perfect explanation and easy to understand language my dear friend Reza even a common man like me can understand in a cleaner way. Keep doing videos like these.
So happy to hear the feedback! Thank You so much for watching.
HI Again Raza. Great content. Thanks.
Do you have a video, or series showing how to build your helpdesk app? It looks excellent
Thanks so much.
I do not have a step by step video on this app.
I did use it in various videos though.
Example: th-cam.com/video/1o2L0DADzKQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qQSHepUmN4iD458O
@@RezaDorrani thank you. i will take a look
This is a great video. As always your videos are very informative. I was looking this function. Would you kind to make a learning video on how to Use Power apps Warp to create native apps for Android. I have an app created and I want to make it a native app instead of installing Power Apps.
Thanks!
I make videos when I get multiple requests on a particular topic.
Every quarter I ask subscribers for topic suggestions on the Community Tab of my TH-cam channel.
Subscribers vote for topics and the highest voted topics get added to my backlog.
Make sure you post this in the next topic suggestion post. If it gets a lot of votes, I will add it to my backlog.
Reza, your job is amazing! I'm glad you share your knowledge with us!!
My pleasure! I enjoy the process of creating content.
Hello Reza, amazing content as usual, keep up the hard work, just a quick question, is there any possible way to print the line chart to a pdf, when I do that, it converts the whole chart to black, thank you.
Thanks. I don’t think it supports charts. Check documentation to see its limitations.
Another great video, Reza. Unfortunately I couldn't follow along as I normally do as it appears the PDF function is now showing in the Settings, under Experimental as yet (I guess it's just been released so not in most Tenants as yet). Will come back to it and try it out as soon as it appears. Thanks for sharing. Really handy feature it promises to be. 😀
You would need app authoring version to be 3.22094 or up in order for the feature to show up.
@@RezaDorrani Thanks Reza. Will take another look to see which version I currently have. 👍
Hi Reza, I appreciate your videos so much! They are always extremely informative and detailed, you are a GREAT teacher!!! Do you have tips on how to create page breaks in the PDF? I'm using HTML and pen input controls for a signed agreement and I'm having issues with the page breaks. At times a line of text is split in such a way that the top of the text is on the bottom of one page and the bottom of the text (for the same line of text) shows on the next one.
Thanks Mona!
Page break is currently not a feature of the PDF Function.
You would need to look into 3rd party premium actions that offer advanced pdf generation capabilities.
@@RezaDorrani thanks for the QUICK reply!
@@MonaVelazquez Actually for anyone looking for this, found the solution, you have to set a certain height to your page something like this in your HTML before inputting your data:
Problem is now if your content is dynamic, it will break after the 1866 px, in that case you can set this if you want to avoid it to break in between your table or something like that:
but that's as far as I managed to make it.
Thanks for the great content Reza. I recently built a whole MS Flow to export an entire APP to PDF, save it to SharePoint, then return the download link to PowerApps so that it opens in a new Tab. Will give this a try. Do not see it in the list of 'Upcoming features yet' but guess that depends on your region etc?
You would need app authoring version to be 3.22094 or up.
@@RezaDorrani thanks Reza
@@sportstop5 Maybe you can activate it... Open your App, click Settings, click Support, there is an EDIT-Button for the "Build"-Version (Erstellungsversion in German). There you can set it to the newest Version, in my case (Germany) 3.22101.10
Hello Reza.
I'm using this function to generate PDF and then send by flow to SharePoint library, thanks for Your great videos.
But... from time to time (now almost always) it doesn't work and says the app has been unexpectedly closed, because there's a lack of temp memory.
Do You have any idea how to solve this issue?
I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the fix for your issue is. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Hi Reza,
nice video,
how about having header and footer to all the pages in pdf?
also
can I use multiple containers to generate one pdf?
Basically I am building quotes, with multiple pages which involves header and footer on all the pages, how do I go about that using powerapps?
Pdf function does not support header and footer.
It has limited functionality. You can pdf an entire screen by pointing to parent container.
Multi screen pdf is not supported
Thank you so much for your videos !!! I tried to send a mail including the form control, and it seems the pdf generated only shows the first "row" of data cards in the Form control, if the data cards in the form control are organized in more than one row (in you example it is one row), only the first row is shown in the pdf. Am I doing something wrong?
I did not run into this issue so not sure.
I would recommend posting your issue/query with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com
Hello Reza, may I have a question? I added an pen input (to get a signature) in the home screen, but when I made it as a pdf file and saved it in Sharepoint, the pen input was all black. I can't see the signature. Is there any solutions? When I print it (print()), I can see the signature, but when I use the pdf file, I can't see the signature. Thank you so much all the time. You are the best of the best!!
One of the demos in the video includes pen input control. I take the data from pen input and store it as list item attachments. Then I use output of pdf function and send pdf blob to flow which stores data in a file.
Note: the pdf function is experimental and could very well have some limitations (documented or undocumented).
@@RezaDorrani Got it. Thank you so much for your help!! You are the best!!!!!
Hi Reza, thank you for a great video. I followed your steps and was able to generate a pdf file and emailed it to the current user from PowerApps design environment, however after published it is working anymore, it says PDF creation fail. Can you help me with it? TIA
Great!
I have not come across the mentioned issue and hence not sure what the fix for your issue is. I recommend posting your issue with screenshots on the forums at powerusers.microsoft.com