Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

Assume that you have a canvas app with Owner as ‘User 1’ and you would want to make ‘User 2’ as Owner of the App.

We have couple of options.

• Using Set-AdminPowerAppOwner command of PowerShell.
• Create a Power Automate Flow and trigger Set App Owner action of ‘Power Apps for Admins’ connector.

In this article lets see how to use Power Automate Flow to change the Owner. Following is how the completed flow looks like.

Key in this flow is ‘Set App Owner’ Action and following are the parameters.

Name	Key	Required	Type	Description
Environment Name	environment	True	string	Name field of the Environment.
PowerApp Name	app	True	string	Name field of the PowerApp.
API Version	api-version		string	The date value of the API version.
Content Type	Content-Type		string	The content type of the API request.
Role For Old App Owner	roleForOldAppOwner		string	The role name for the old app owner. Choose from CanView, CanViewWithShare, or CanEdit.
New PowerApp Owner	newAppOwner		string	The principal object ID of the new owner.

Lets see step by step process to build the flow.

Step by Step budling flow:

• Create a new flow as shown below.

• As mentioned, key component of this flow is ‘Set App Owner’ Action and in the next steps, we will see how to pass parameters to ‘Set App Owner’ Action.
• First we need to capture the ‘New PowerApp Owner’ parameter which is ‘Principal object ID’ of the User.
  • Note: ‘Principal object ID’ is not GUID of ‘System User’ in Dataverse. Its Azure Active Directory ID.
• Add a ‘Get user profile (V2)’ action of Office 365 Users connector to capture the ‘Principal object ID’ of the User.

• Rename the ‘Get user profile (V2)’ to ‘GetUserProfile’. (Optional Step)
• Set “User (UPN)” as the User Id of the new Owner.

• Now add ‘Set App Owner’ action.

• Set ‘New PowerApp Owner’ as ‘Id’ from the output of previous ‘GetUserProfile’ action.

• For ‘Environment Name‘ parameter, go to Power Apps maker portal, open ‘Settings -> Developer resources’.

• Copy ‘Environment ID’ and paste in ‘Environment Name‘ parameter of ‘Set App Owner’ action.

• For ‘PowerApp Name‘ parameter, go to Power Apps maker portal, open ‘App -> Details’.
• Copy the ‘App ID‘ and paste in ‘PowerApp Name’ parameter of ‘Set App Owner’ action.

• For ‘Role For Old App Owner‘ parameter, either you can leave or provide ‘CanView’.
• Leave ‘API Version‘ and ‘Content Type‘ as default.
• You should see the flow as below once you follow all mentioned steps.

• That’s all needed!. Run the flow and you should see the owner of the App to the new user mention in the flow.

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