Hi
I've created a flow to convert html text into a pdf (as per Shane Young's video). The html includes powerapps code to bring in dynamic data from the selected item in a gallery. The html is working well in powerapps, however, when I bring it into flow the powerapps code renders as text in html and pdf. The html file shows the formatting as expected but the PDF file does not, in fact one table is missing.
So I have two issues:
1. How to get the html to show the data from Powerapps rather than the code (I've tried wrapping it in concat() but I haven't been able to make it work).
2. How to get the html formatting to render into pdf via flow properly.
The html code is as below:
"<html>
<head>
<style>
h{font-family:arial}
h1{font-family:arial}
h2{font-family:arial}
p{font-family:arial}
table {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}
td, th {
border: 1px solid #dddddd;
text-align: left;
padding: 8px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
"&Gallery2.Selected.srOverallRAG&"</h1>
<h1>"&Gallery2.Selected.Title& " "& Text(Gallery2.Selected.srReportDate,"[$-en-US]dd/mm/yyyy","en-GB")&"</h1>
<Table>
<tr>
<tr>
<th>Overall</th>
<th>Schedule</th>
<th>Cost</th>
<th>Resources</th>
<th>Business Readiness</th>
<th>Resilience</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srOverallRAG&"</td>
<td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srScheduleRAG&"</td>
<td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srCostRAG&"</td>
<td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srResourcesRAG&"</td>
<td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srBusReadinessRAG&"</td>
<td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srResilienceRAG&"</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><strong>"&Gallery2.Selected.srKeyMessage&"</strong></p>
<h2>Update And milestones</h2>
<p>text - update and milestones</p>
<Table>
<tr>
<th>Help Required</th>
<th>From Who?</th>
<th>Help required</th>
<th>From Who?</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Help required1</td>
<td>From Who1</td>
<td>Help required3</td>
<td>From Who3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Help required2</td>
<td>From Who2 </td>
<td>Help required4</td>
<td>From Who4 </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
"
Solved! Go to Solution.
I found the solution: the CONCAT() in file content was the wrong expression to use. I just changed this to 'CreateFileFileContent'.
The reason why your data is rendering as text rather than values is that the context of that data is PowerApps, not Flow. So Flow doesn't know how to interpret those values since they are out of scope. You'll need to insert the actual values into the HTML text before you pass it to Flow for rendering.
For the HTML coming through as text, i suspect something about the HTML is invalid. When you export the HTML to a file as Shane does does it render correctly as HTML in the browser?
Hi @Anonymous ,
Do you want to pass the HTML code value from your app to your flow?
Based on the needs that you mentioned, I have made a test on my side, and don't have the issue that you mentioned. Based on the HTML code formula you provided, I think there is something issue with it. Please modify your formula as below:
"<html> <head> <style> h{font-family:arial} h1{font-family:arial} h2{font-family:arial} p{font-family:arial} table { font-family: arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; } td, th { border: 1px solid #dddddd; text-align: left; padding: 8px; } </style> </head> <body> <h1> "&Gallery2.Selected.srOverallRAG&"</h1> <h1>"&Gallery2.Selected.Title& " "& Text(Gallery2.Selected.srReportDate,"[$-en-US]dd/mm/yyyy","en-GB")&"</h1> <Table> /* <-- Replace here with table rather than Table */ <tr> <tr> <th>Overall</th> <th>Schedule</th> <th>Cost</th> <th>Resources</th> <th>Business Readiness</th> <th>Resilience</th> </tr> <tr> <td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srOverallRAG&"</td> <td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srScheduleRAG&"</td> <td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srCostRAG&"</td> <td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srResourcesRAG&"</td> <td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srBusReadinessRAG&"</td> <td>"&Gallery2.Selected.srResilienceRAG&"</td> </tr> </table> <p><strong>"&Gallery2.Selected.srKeyMessage&"</strong></p> <h2>Update And milestones</h2> <p>text - update and milestones</p> <Table> /* <-- Replace here with table rather than Table */ <tr> <th>Help Required</th> <th>From Who?</th> <th>Help required</th> <th>From Who?</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Help required1</td> <td>From Who1</td> <td>Help required3</td> <td>From Who3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Help required2</td> <td>From Who2 </td> <td>Help required4</td> <td>From Who4 </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> "
Note: Please make sure the open tag (e.g. <table>) and the close tag (e.g </table>) matched properly in your HTML code above.
More details about converting data from app into PDF file, please check the following video resources for help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhE0-HumNNo&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfXV_GXc_JM
Best regards,
Hi @Pstork1
Thanks for your reply. It makes sense but I'm having trouble how to work out how to render the code in powerapps as text to pass over to Flow. I've been trying concatenate and concat but they don't appear to work. I am referencing only the selected record in a gallery.
I solved the issue with the HTML (thanks @v-xida-msft - in addition to the error in the table tag that you spotted one of the table row tags had come adrift).
Glad you got it working.
thanks but I'm still having trouble with it - I can't work out how to convert the code in powerapps so flow can treat it as text - I have tried using concatenate and concat but neither of them will work for me.
Hi @Anonymous ,
Actually, the HTML code in PowerApps app is recognized as Text value. You could pass the HTML text to the flow directly.
You could consider add a HTML text control within your app, then set the HtmlText property to the HTML code that you mentioned. Then within your Flow connection formula, you could type the following formula as argument:
'FlowName'.Run(HtmlText1.HtmlText, ...)
Within your flow, you could created a HTML file based on the passed HTML text value using "Create file" action of OneDrive for Business connector or OneDrive connector, then use the "Convert file" action of OneDrive for Business connector or OneDrive connector to convert the HTML file content into a PDF file content, then based on the converted PDF file content, you could create a PDF file.
Please consider check above video resources I provided, then check if it could help in your scenario. Within the video resource, you could learn how to use Concat function to concatenate column values from a Table.
Best regards,
thanks but I watched the video, created a htmltext control, added the html and created the flow to create a html file and then a PDF before I posted the question.
The flow is running but the powerapps code is showing as code and not as the result.
I've used CONCAT('') in flow with the html from powerapps.
Here is an extract of the code which shows how powerapps code is placed in a longer string of html (have left the rest of the html out for clarity)
<h1>
"&Gallery2.Selected.srOverallRAG&"</h1>
This leads to this output in the HTML/PdF
"&Gallery2.Selected.srOverallRAG&"
Edited: I succssfully edited this formula by going to Action > Flow and editing it there rather than typing it directly into the formula bar. I still haven't got it to run in Flow though.
The RUN formula which you suggest sort of works in that it shows the HTML strung together with the correct values rather than the Powerapps code however powerapps underlines it in red and returns the error "Invalid number of arguments received: received 1, expected 0"). This is the expression which is triggered by the OnSelect property of a button control: 'PowerApp->Createfile'.Run(HtmlText1.HtmlText)
I found the solution: the CONCAT() in file content was the wrong expression to use. I just changed this to 'CreateFileFileContent'.
Sorry JMMurphy but this makes no sense. Can you share more in detail what you are referring to? There is no CreateFileFileContent in an expression for file content!? Thanks.
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