Why i am unable to connect my Power Apps to a SharePoint site under Australia Gov

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Why i am unable to connect my Power Apps to a SharePoint site under Australia Gov

john john Pter 1,065

Hi All,

please note that this is a SharePoint online related question and not Power Apps, so please do not ignore or redirect me to other forums.

We have a SharePoint online site under the Australian government, with this url pattern:-

https://.**.****.gov.au/sites/test/

where this is the first time i deal with SharePoint online site that does not contain the word SharePoint.com in its url. Now i want to create a power apps which is connected to the above site's lists and libraries, but when i tried to connect to the site inside power apps i got this error "Something went wrong please try again later" :-

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and the only site i can see is the root site with sharepoint.com in its url and which does not have the .gov inside its url, as follow:-

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so can anyone advice how i can connect my Power Apps to a governmental SharePoint site?

Thanks

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Caspar Cui 25

Good day John,
It's seemed like you are trying to connect an on-prem based SharePoint Site.
Or the gov sites have their own domain name and you need to find the real Site URL.

If the SharePoint Sites is Hybrid or it's On-Prem site, you need to use the gateway to connect with them.(should be very hard to push)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/connections/connection-sharepoint-online#create-a-connection
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/gateway-reference#use-a-gateway

If the SharePoint Sites have URL Mapping(like SharePoint Server), you need to find the real URL and try it again.

john john Pter 1,065 Reputation points

2024-11-14T01:29:31.84+00:00

@Caspar Cui thanks a lot for the helpful reply.. so how i can know if this is a on-prem site? or it is an online site? is there a way for me to tell?
Caspar Cui 25 Reputation points

2024-11-18T07:06:44.5033333+00:00

Actually, you can ask the site owners; they could tell you where the site hosting on.
Just for my experience, this site is an on-prem site and you need install a gateway before you connect with it.
john john Pter 1,065 Reputation points

2024-11-18T07:11:43.78+00:00

@Caspar Cui

Ok thanks for the info, now they mentioned to us that we can not use Power Apps with this SharePoint site.. thanks anyway for the help.
john john Pter 1,065 Reputation points

2024-11-18T07:35:27.9733333+00:00

@Casper Cui so you mean that this might be an onpremsies site that is accessed over the internet using gateway ?
Caspar Cui 25 Reputation points

2024-11-19T00:23:09.3566667+00:00

@john john Pter With proper configuration, pages can be accessed over the internet even if they are deployed in an On-Prem SharePoint Server Farm (in fact, many legacy sites do this, which is one of the features of SharePoint Server).

I'm guessing that this site was probably developed based on SharePoint Server 2019, which continues the resources and development approach of previously developed sites. Because as we all know, SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online are developed in a completely different way, even for a simple Web Part.

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