Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

If you are new to PowerApps, please go through my previous blog

In this post, lets build an App with an Account Form and create the record in Dynamics 365.

Prerequisite:

• You must have a PowerApps account. Refer blog for details.
• Create a Microsoft Flow with logic to create an Account record in Dynamics 365
• Build an App and trigger Flow

Steps to create Flow:

• Login to PowerApps Portal
• Navigate to Business Logic -> Flows -> Create from blank

• In the new Flow screen, Choose Action, select ‘Dynamics 365’

• Select ‘Create a new record’ from Actions.
• Now we need to put place holders in the fields which we pass data from PowerApp.

• To add a place holder to ‘Account Name’ field, select the field, in ‘Dynamics content’ window, click on ‘Ask in PowerApps‘ button.
  • A new place holder will get added to ‘Account Name’ field.

• I repeated the above step for ‘Main Phone’ and ‘Description’ fields.

• Rename the Flow to CreateAccount and Save

Invoke Flow from PowerApp:

• To know, how to create a new App and add controls to form, refer my earlier blog
• To trigger the Flow, select the ‘Create’ button, go to ‘Action -> Flows’
• From the ‘Data’ window, select the flow created in above section (i.e.,CreateAccount)

• On ‘OnSelect’ event of button, trigger the Flow ‘CreateAccount’ by calling ‘Run’ method and passing the 3 placeholder parameters.
  • CreateAccount.Run(txtName.Text,txtDesc.Text,txtMobile.Text)
• Thats it, now its time to test the App

Test the App:

• Press F5
• Set the values and click ‘Create’

• Open the D365 App and you should see new ‘Account’ record.

Refer my earlier article to build an App using Excel as Data Source.

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