Whats up Flow Fans!\u00a0<\/p>\n
This week we have a special FOTW From one of our MVP’s – Paul Culmsee!<\/p>\n
Paul Culmsee (@paulculmsee<\/a>) is a management and technology consultant, Microsoft MVP and award winning author from Perth, Western Australia. He co-founded Seven Sigma Business Solutions (http:\/\/www.sevensigma.com.au\u00a0<\/a>) and specialises in sensemaking, helping organisations (re)discover their purpose, knowledge management, strategic planning, IT governance, facilitation and all facets of SharePoint and Office365 delivery<\/p>\n Hi everyone.<\/p>\n Imagine a company where service technicians perform on-site repair of equipment. Inevitably, in doing this sort of work, the technician will need to refer to equipment drawings, service history, past photos, specifications and\/or operating manuals.<\/p>\n These days PowerApps is fast-becoming a great option for such a scenario because many field workers prefer to use their phone or a tablet. I have made many apps like this and PowerApps is a great solution for this use-case. But PowerApps also has some limitations, and right now that is around the display of documents from SharePoint. For a start, it is impossible to display office documents natively in PowerApps at this time, and there are authentication-related issues in certain circumstances when pulling content from SharePoint.<\/p>\n But fear not\u2026 with a 6-step flow, it is possible to solve this problem. This flow allows a remote user to securely request a document from SharePoint, but importantly, converts that document to a PDF on the fly<\/em>.<\/p>\n There are two big benefits from this:<\/p>\n Now in the (admittedly large article to follow, I go into detail on how to set this up, but if you prefer to see this in video form, we also have you covered\u2026<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Sympathy for the on-site technician<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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