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Scott Perley's avatar
Scott Perley
Brass Contributor
Apr 22, 2019

'For a selected item' flow as an action in a PowerApp?

Hey All,

I've created a flow that works off the "For a Selected Item" and it works well.  The SharePoint item, we start from has a customized PowerApp form setup.

Is there a way to put a button on the PowerApp form that launches the "For a Selected Item" flow?

When I add the action to a button, it tells me that there are no flows and prompts me to create one.  If I create one from Scratch, it doesn't let me pull in the details as I do on my existing Flow.

 

Any suggestions?  Or is this a new idea?

Thanks

Scott

Microsoft Flow
PowerApps
sharepoint

7 Replies

  • Matt Weston's avatar
    Matt Weston
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 23, 2019

    Hi Scott Perley , the reason for this is because the "For a selected item" trigger is tied to SharePoint, whereas when you put a PowerApp in place you can only interact directly with Flows which have a PowerApp trigger. I will have a look to see if there's anything which can be done to change that, but as far as I know there's not.

     

    So it might be worth considering your options, which I'll keep quite high level as I don't know the ins and outs of your solution.

     

    1. Change you trigger so that it runs on something happening on the list item - this unfortunately means that you can't directly fire the Flow from your SharePoint list or from your PowerApp.

     

    2. Consider using a sub-flow type architecture where you have a Flow which contains your main logic which is then called by two other Flows: one against the When an item is selected for the SharePoint list, and one on a PowerApps trigger for your PowerApps form. This way, the bulk of the functionality is stored centrally, but you can still call it from different areas.

     

    I hope that helps, and if you need any more info please let me know.

    • Scott Perley's avatar
      Scott Perley
      Brass Contributor
      Apr 23, 2019

      Thanks Matt Weston 

       

      I'll try those suggestions out.  I like the idea of the sub-flow.  It's not something I've done yet.

       

      The flow that I run today, prompts the user for a couple more details that are not available on the selected item and then generates a document (populate a word doc)

       

      I was hoping that because I am effectively working with an item, it could be considered the "selected item" and would then work the same as doing it from the list view.  Our users work from a webpart looking at the individual item and rarely visit the list view.

  • Muhammad Hassan Nawaz's avatar
    Muhammad Hassan Nawaz
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 23, 2019

    Hi, We only trigger the flow which starts from the PowerApps . I think we cannot trigger the list item flow from PowerApps untill you start create it from PowerApps.

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