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Integrating Power Apps Canvas Apps with SharePoint

With this project, you will be able to integrate SharePoint with your Power App.

When the user does any of the following, your Power App will automatically open:

1. The user clicks on the "New" button in the SP List.
2. The user clicks on the "Title" of a List Item.
3. The user selects "Edit Item" form the Menu.
4. The user clicks on the "Link To Item" link you included in an email from Power Automate.
5. Anywhere within SharePoint where SharePoint would normally open a form, your Power App will open instead.

When developing form for SharePoint in Power Apps you have to make a decision between SharePoint Power Apps Form or a Canvas App.

If you choose a SharePoint Power App form, your App is locked to the SharePoint List. It is not easily portable to another list. It lives in the Default Environment. But you get the goodness of the SharePoint Front End with its Views and Permissions.

If you choose a Canvas App, your App is now portable. It can be deployed to any Environment you create. But now you are responsible for the entire UI. You have lost the SharePoint Front End.

With this project, you can use a Canvas App and wire it up to your SharePoint List using Deep Linking. To wire it up, you use a little PnP PowerShell and an aspx Page uploaded to Site Assets.