Integrated Power App with our MS Word Template Project for 2024

It's time to integrate our Power App based on all that wonderful SharePoint work we did last week to set this up. The document content types with templates will be integrated with Power Apps so you only see the document properties of each template when you fill out the properties. Let's create a Integrated Power App with our MS Word Template Project in 2024!
Part 1: • Complete MS Word Templ...
Integrating Power Apps with Word document templates automates the customization of documents using data from various sources, enhancing efficiency and accuracy by reducing manual data entry errors. This integration streamlines workflows, enabling direct data transfer from Power Apps to Word, ensuring consistency and adaptability to changing business needs. It also promotes collaboration, as the automated documents can be easily shared across teams, improving communication and decision-making within organizations.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Changing the Title of the Document
2:40 Integrate Power Apps
3:50 Starting our Power App Form
4:20 Content Type GUI Id
7:25 Creating a Context Variable varContentTypeName
10:25 Publishing our Power App
11:40 Updating the SharePoint View
14:35 Finally Just Hide Content Type Card
15:04 Conclusion

[@andrewhess123]

Next week video, we are going to create new templates using Power Apps, Power Automate, and PDFs! NON Premium!

[@yogibarista2818]

I had recent experience creating SharePoint content types, and creating documents from a Word Template using Power-Apps and Power-Automate. One issue that was difficult to manage was that dates set on the SharePoint item were not correctly displayed on the Word document. As far as I can determine, this was due to SharePoint assuming that dates are UTC while Word assumed that they should be local dates relative to that UTC date - in my case resulting in document always displaying a day later than had been set on the SharePoint property by the Power-Automate. I resolved it in a work-around, by calculating a string version of the date in the Power-App, sending that to the Power-Automate, saving that property value on the SharePoint item, and using that property in the Word Template, but I'm sure that I must be doing something wrong and that there is a "Doh!" solution.

[@andrewhess123]

Hah, yeah that sounds about right yogi. The way Power Apps / Power Automate / and SharePoint does dates is not consistent. Thanks for sharing though I bet someone else may run into the same exact issue!@@yogibarista2818

[@maxandchance2024]

this is great!! can the document's list columns be used in a current PowerApps application (not through the Intergrate- Power Apps - Customize forms) to display the columns in a fancy manual created PowerApps application; using the Word document that was created and in the library? From here call the Power Automate flow

[@andrewhess123]

Hey Pam!
Oh yes of course. You don't have to integrate... you can really go straight to Power Apps. Integration was just a different way of doing it.

[@DrVaruntyagi]

Hello Andrew, sorry once again. I am a doctor working in the NHS who is working on a QIP involving automation of discharge summaries following this same method of power apps to populate ms word templates.

[@andrewhess123]

Hi Dr.Varun, sorry I missed your last message, just now saw it. Excellent it's amazing to see how far these demo's have gone and are helping people.