Power Apps PDF Function Introduction | Create PDF Documents from Screens, Galleries & Containers

Power Apps Tutorial video introducing the new PDF function.
Power Fx PDF function allows us to create PDF documents directly from PowerApps screens, galleries and containers.

The generated PDF Blob can be leveraged to showcase the PDF in a PDF Viewer control in Power Apps, or send an email with PDF File attachments from Power Apps or save the generated PDF File to a data source like SharePoint Document Library with the help of Power Automate flow.

PDF function video in Power Apps covers the following:
✅ PDF Function introduction
✅ PDF function options (Orientation - Landscape or Portrait, Size - Paper Size A1,A2, etc., Margin, DPI and ExpandContainers)
✅ PDF function Expand Containers (Shows all gallery items, can be used for Scrollable screen, form control, DataTable, etc.)
✅ Generate PDF from Power Apps Gallery or Collection or Data Table
✅ Generate PDF from Power Apps Screen
✅ Generate PDF from Power Apps Container
✅ Generate PDF from Power Apps Form Control
✅ Send PDF as email attachment from PowerApps
✅ Save PDF generated in Power Apps to SharePoint
✅ Generate PDF in PowerApps from SharePoint List Item Attachments (Camera, Pen Input, Upload Picture).

#PowerApps #PDF #powerfx #sharepoint

Keeping up to date with the latest on the Power Platform is a challenge & I hope this video series has you covered on the recent updates.

📝 Make sure to set App Authoring Version to latest available and check for settings to enable PDF Function feature.

Helpful Links 🔗:

New Power Fx Function - Create a PDF from Power Apps with PDF functions

Power Apps SharePoint List Attachments | Save Camera Pictures, Pen Input & Images

Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction to PDF Function in Power Apps
00:41 - Power Fx New PDF Function definition
01:32 - Generate PDF from Screen
and Display in PDF Viewer
02:33 - Generate PDF from Gallery
02:56 - PDF Function Options
04:12 - Expand Containers in Power Apps
05:15 - Send PDF as Email Attachment from Power Apps
07:24 - Generate PDF From Container
08:28 - Generate PDF from SharePoint List Item Attachments
11:05 - Generate PDF From Multiple Controls
(Container)
12:03 - PDF Function in Action
12:24 - Generate PDF from Power Apps
& Save PDF File in SharePoint Document Library
16:01 - Subscribe to Reza Dorrani channel

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[greatkingrat]

The quality of the videos, the speed of the delivery and the content has, in my opinion, jumped to a whole other level. These videos are very professionally put together. The animated marker that you're using looks great. Keep it up and a huge thanks for taking the time to inform and educate us.

[cristyanrattis]

Reza, here in Brazil we're always talking about the meme "there's always a indian guy on youtube to teach you something you need".

But your more than that, your a professional, educator and a live saver. A lot of your work here on this platform, helped me to improve a good part of my business process.

Thank you so much!

[kristoftorres]

Hi Reza. I just finished developing my first Power App and used many of the functions you describe in many of your videos. I spent almost a month learning Forms, Galleries, relational sharepoint lists, Patch, and finally PDF(). It is an app that will serve my wife's nutritionists clinical practice. I also developed a few basic apps for my construction management company and people really liked them and adopted them quickly as a standard business practice. I want to thank you for your videos as they have truly been an inspiration to learn and put into practice the concepts you explain so clearly. I feel that I am standing on the shoulders of giants.

[ReinerKnudsen]

Honestly: I didn't think you could get any better. But this video is so incredibly full of new things to learn beyond the actual PDf function. Thanks for taking the time to create and share this video!!

[RanjitSingh-xksb]

Thank you for this great video. This works with Customized Sharepoint forms as well. I added the SharePoint form inside the container and used this formula PDF(yourContainerName, {ExpandContainers:true})). Make sure PDF button is outside the container and Reorder = Bring to front.

[ashrafjavali]

Dear Mr. Reza, you are always my barrier breaker in my Power Apps journey, thank you so much for this video.

[g]

Power Apps just keeps getting better and better. Love this feature, thanks for sharing Reza 👍

[jbo]

Another Great Video Reza! As others have said, you are consistently creating very valuable and easy to understand content. In addition to improved user experience this improved my app performance and reduced number of steps in power automate from around 25 down to just 3. I really appreciate all that you do. Thank you!

[carlw]

Everything Reza does is fantastic. I've been too busy this past summer to even look at Office365 stuff. This winter I'll be able to finally finish some Power Apps and Flow projects

[timothymathesii]

Amazing Function to use! Hopefully in a future update they will be able to auto shift gallery items so they do not get split in half across different pages.

[RajaSekharDevarakonda]

Great tutorial. I spent 24 hours trying to get the PDF stored in sharepoint document library. Thanks for detailed tutorial.

[SirviscaSH]

Thank you!
I hope they keep adding more pdf functions in the future. Like putting a text or image to an existing pdf file.

[pamsmith]

Thanks Reza! I think this is exactly what I was looking for. I'll give it a try in my app

[ExploreMore]

Hi Reza, Thank you for a detail and clear explanation . Always enjoy your videos and learn new things. Really appreciated!

[georgegualda]

Reza, Thank You for a very detail and clear explanation of this new feature. Always enjoy your videos. Hopefully we will see in the very near future UI/UX videos featuring Figma to PowerApps option.

[TheAlgebraTeacherPOWERStoBI]

Just want to thank you as always for helping me learn so many new features that are hard to keep up with. You are a rockstar!

[SAULSM]

Como siempre, muy bueno. Gracias Reza!!!

[felipehurtadodj]

Simply impeccable! what an excellent video!

[diltoncesarjunior]

Great Job again Reza!! Congrats!! Please why some pictures don't render in PDF? In my One Page a have 10 pictures (photos from employees) but some doesn't appear when I visualize the PDF. Could you give a hint? In time, happy new year for you and your family.

[maxeaumercier]

These videos are amazing, the presentation and how it's explain. These app seem great. do you have any video that shows them in detail. I've watching a lot of your video and also learning a lot from you. I think you're probably one of the best out there when it comes to the power platform. Thank you and keep putting great stuff out there