Use PowerApp to enter the user's input into the word document.

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I am working on Powerapp and need to create an application where on basis of user's selection, we will choose a word document and then populate user's input value in it. For example. If a user chooses year as 2018 then a document belonging to this year will be selected and the user will fill a form whose values will get populated inside the word document. I know we have quick parts for this but I need to achieve it through PowerApp.

Hamid Tirmizi Hamid Tirmizi · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-07T14:00:09

I think your best choice in this case is to use a combination of PowerApps and Flow.

Here are the instructions on how to trigger a flow from a PowerApp:

Start a flow in a canvas app https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/using-logic-flows

See the following article on how to use a flow connector to update a Word document using a document template. (The latest version of the connector seems to have changed the APIs, so there may be some work to do instead of simply following the instructions in the article.)

Create DOCX Word document from template based on dynamic data in Microsoft Flow https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/Create-DOCX-Word-document-from-template-based-on-dynamic-data-in/ba-p/79389

Use PowerApp to enter the user's input into the word document.

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