Run Power Apps connections with elevated permissions via Power Automate | Impersonate flow actions

In this Power Apps video, I will showcase how to run data connections in PowerApps with elevated permissions as a different user / run as admin using Power Automate flows.
Similar to the Impersonation Step action in SharePoint designer workflows, we will be able to run the connectors in flow as an admin account / service account.
Scenario demonstrated in video: User has Read access in SharePoint list, but user will be able to create items in SharePoint list via Power App.
The new Power Apps (V2) trigger in flow gives us Run-as capabilities in Power Automate & opens up possibilities of SharePoint Security/permission impersonation by elevating user access in Power Apps.
The magic is in the "Run only users" setting of Power Automate flows triggered from Power Apps using the V2 connector.

Video includes the following:
✅ PowerApps Security with data connections & Sharing
✅ Power Apps run based on Permissions of data source
✅ Call Power Automate from Power Apps
✅ Run Power Automate actions with elevated permissions (different user account)
✅ Call flow from Power Apps to run under elevated security.

#PowerApps #PowerAutomate #SharePoint #Permissions #ElevatedAccess

Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - Power App connected to SharePoint List
03:01 - Share App with User(s) & Setting Permissions (Security)
06:00 - Run Power App Connections with elevated security
06:57 - Run Power Automate actions as a different user
12:04 - Call flow from Power Apps and pass form information as parameter
15:36 - Run connections in flows called from Power Apps as a different user (admin connection)
18:32 - Track Information of User creating request
20:47 - Subscribe to Reza Dorrani channel

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[jesseveentjer]

Reza you gem of a man, I was JUST now getting to this part in my very first PowerApp. As if posessed I woke up (uncharacteristically) at 6 am and opened youtube with your video as #1.

absolutely golden, thank you so much!

[arielalaniz]

15:39 Thank you!! I had a problem with the execution of the flow by other users and this explanation solved the problem for me!

[AssassinUK]

This is one of the best PowerApp and Power Automate vids I have watched in a while! This has literally saved one of my Apps. I needed to be able to upload PDFs to a SharePoint site and show it as well without adding anyone to the SharePoint site, this vid helped!

Do a separate video going into detail of using Flow to save data. You talked about it, but I think it deserves a video all of its own for more explanation.

[soyebmalek]

Great video as usual.
One thing I love in your videos is your introductory part with Sneak peek, what we are going to achieve in whole video, which helps audience to understand whole concept.

[AlperMOrnek]

My man Reza, When you appear in the search results I feel like %50 of the work is already done, thanks a lot!

[EpicDreamer_]

Thanks Reza! Thank you really! Long life, health and happiness to you for sharing all knowledge and techniques with us who are becoming the fans of your masterpieces and talent!

[yjamous]

This used one of the challenges I faced when building PowerApps where I had to provide users with read/write access. This is much better way. Thanks a lot Reza.

[joostvanderlinden]

Wonderful Reza! The part about impersonation really helped me out and saved me hours of investigating an issue I was facing!

[ermizz]

Great video! Your teaching style and info is outstanding.

[stefancochrane]

Many thanks!

I'm glad this works. Also, because it is called directly in PowerApps, the changes to the item are pretty much instantaneous. Moreover, I tested with external accounts who cannot use "For a selected item" Power Automate actions in SPO lists. They can call flows like this, thru PowerApps, then the main owner/developer of the PowerApps form can do whatever afterwards. In my case, I'm changing item-level permissions. Thanks, again!

[SamiUllah]

This is brilliant. You make it so simple. Thank You. This is RunWithElevatedPrivileges(), a very common case in WSP model for SharePoint.

[HareKrsn]

Today I learned something new…thank you Reza❤

[robd]

Love this. So many times I have needed impersonation and have had to workaround it by using two Sharepoint sites

This is awesome!!! I will for sure use this on future projects.
Thank you so much for sharing with the community.

[hip]

Hi Reza - this is another video that has helped resolve an issue i’ve been battling for over a year and is going to help my company improve it’s controls considerably, while allowing us to be efficient and productive. Thank you very much!! Excited to keep going through your videos

[samarabbasshariff]

You are the savior Reza, Many Thanks for this video. It was Right in-time! :)
I was looking forward to this elevated permissions concept in Power Automate for my project. Kudos!

[SHAli]

Now I have to change couple of my flows :)
Another brilliant video
Thanks Dear Reza

[pawanmishra]

Learnt a new concept today, adding data using JSON technique. - Thanks Reza 🤝, Have a great weekend ahead 👍

[jrockno]

Great video Reza! As always, clear explanations and use cases. Thank you.

[raymondlyle]

Thanks Reza, crystal clear as always, so many use cases for this at my company!