PowerApps PDF Viewer SharePoint Document Library without flow 04-27-2023 17:19 PM

[RezaDorrani]

In this Power Apps tutorial video, we will explore how to use the PDF Viewer control in Power Apps to show PDF files & Office documents (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) from SharePoint Document Library without using Power Automate flows. PowerApps PDF Viewer control is using the API to transform Office documents into a PDF file. We can also use the Thumbnail property to show document previews. This entire concept showcases using the PowerApps PDF viewer control without flow.

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Reza Dorrani, MVP
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[JürgenD]

Hi Reza,

with great interest i saw your video. 

I would like to build an app like this, but i don't have a document library. Instead i have a sharepointlist with the standard column "Attachments". In my case i can be sure that there is only one attachment for exch data set. How can i display such a file like this with the pdf-viewer?

Can you help me?

Kind regards

Jürgen Dietze

[kky1]

Thanks so much Reza for this helpful video. I am running into an issue near the last step using a label to get the processed URL in Power Apps for the SharePoint Document library item. But instead of a URL that processes the document, it's only giving me the actual URL of the web page. I know I must be doing something wrong - if anyone is able to point out to me what that is, I'd be most appreciative. Thank you!

[knoseworthy_sjc]

Getting same thing wondering if they made changes to url columns structure?

[kky1]

@knoseworthy_sjc - In the end, I gave up on this method and instead used a power automate flow to generate the PDF. There are many videos on that method too. I think the one I followed is Show PDF files from SharePoint in PowerApps - Bing video

The gallery OnSelect is Set(varDocumentCurrent, [here is the name of your flow].Run(Gallery1.Selected.Identifier).result)

varDocumentCurrent is a global text variable.

Insert a PDFViewer on the screen and set its Document to "varPDF.pdfcontent"

Hope this is helpful!

Kendra

[knoseworthy_sjc]

Looks like your "ADDING" a power Automate flow when we are trying not to.

[P3erky87]

This works perfectly for me but not for others within my organisation. Is there some permissions missing or is there something missing in the hyperlink?

[timt0m]

@P3erky87 This is the same issue I am facing as well. It seems to be a GUID for that {specific user} in the appres:// from the *gal.selected.pic column

[jennisho]

@P3erky87 and @timt0m - I came here looking for a solution for the same issue. I read that the "appres://..." is dynamic and will be different for each user in the organization (which I believe is what @timt0m was saying).  Has anyone found a workaround for this that doesn't involve a flow? If I find one I'll come back and update, but I'm losing hope and almost ready to return to flow (which I very much want to avoid).

[timt0m]

Yea, there was a comment in the YouTube video, I found to work. Basically you add a pdf to the root of the folder and put its link in the Pic column. 
what I did was *(I use formulas), but could do it with set too. 
a

Appres= lookup(data source, name=pdf doc, Pic)

another variable to hold the guid and I think it was like 170 first char to start at than 32.

use

AppresID=Mid(Appres, 170,32)

than inside of the Appres with that GUiD value you add in “& AppresID &” than each users GUiD will be in that spot. Not at my computer so the Mid value might be wrong, but it was like 170 or 171.