This week there are several new connectors so I’m updating the “Unofficial PowerApps Connector Reference” with the latest that shipped in the last couple of weeks including: Azure Automation, Azure Data Lake, Basecamp 2, FreshBooks, Infusionsoft, Intercom, LeanKit, Oracle, Pipedrive, WebMerge and more.

Now available online at PowerApps Connectors here

You can download the PowerApps Connector Reference here in PDF format.

You can download the Spanish version PowerApps Connector Reference in Spanish here in PDF format.

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2017-03-14: Updated with Pivotal Tracker, PowerApps Notifications, Toodledo and Zendesk.

2017-04-11: Updated with 10to8, Act!, bttn, Computer Vision API, Flic, Inoreader and Muhimbi PDF

PowerApps Connectors

appFigures

appFigures is a reporting platform for mobile app developers. It brings together all of your app store sales, ad data, worldwide reviews, and hourly rank updates based off of the available reports from your synced accounts.

Asana

Asana enables teams to manage their projects and tasks in one place.

Azure Automation

Azure Automation provides tools to manage your cloud and on-premises infrastructure seamlessly.

Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete blobs in Azure blob storage.

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake Store connector allows you to read and add data to an Azure Data Lake account.

Azure DocumentDB

Azure DocumentDB is a NoSQL service for highly available, globally distributed app. Sign into your DocumentDB account to create, update, and query documents and more.

Azure Queues

Azure Queue storage provides cloud messaging between application components. Queue storage also supports managing asynchronous tasks and building process work flows.

Azure Resource Manager

Azure Resource Manager exposes the APIs to manage all of your Azure resources.

Basecamp 2

Basecamp 2 keeps people on the same page. No matter what your role is, everyone works toward a common goal: finishing a project together.

Basecamp 3

Basecamp 3 is a tool that helps teams work together. It provides a dashboard to manage all messaging, document collaboration, scheduling and task management together in one place.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a web based hosting service for projects that use GIT revision control.

Bitly

Bitly is a link management tool. You can shorten links, reroute existing ones and associate them with campaigns across channels and devices.

Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing service. It allows you to create websites and post to them on an ongoing basis.

Box

Connect to Box to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete files in Box.

Buffer

Buffer is a social media management for marketers and agencies. Access your pending and sent updates, social media profiles, and more.

Campfire

Campfire is an instant messaging tool used for communication and file sharing within teams.

Chatter

Chatter is an enterprise social network for your company that allows employees to connect and collaborate in real time.

Common Data Service

The Microsoft Common Data Model Connector provides a connection to the org-based database on the Microsoft Common Data Model

DB2

The DB2 connector provides an API to work with DB2 Databases.

Disqus

Disqus is a service for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, helping publishers power online discussions.

DocuSign

DocuSign is the easiest and most secure way to sign and get documents signed. With over 50 million users worldwide, DocuSign is the most widely used eSignature and Digital Transaction Management platform in the world.

Dropbox

Connect to Dropbox to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete files in Dropbox.

Dynamics 365

The Dynamics 365 Connection Provider provides an API to work with entities on Dynamics 365.

Dynamics 365 for Financials

Connects to your Madeira data

Dynamics 365 for Operations

The Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Connector provides a connection to Dynamics 365 for Operations Data Entities.

Dynamics NAV

Connects to your Dynamics NAV data

Easy Redmine

Easy Redmine is a web based tool for software project management.

Eventbrite

Eventbrite is a self-service ticketing platform used to create and discover local events.

Excel

Excel Connector

Face API

Azure Cognitive Services Face API allows you to detect, identify, analyze, organize and tag faces in photos.

Facebook

Facebook API allows you to access and publish posts on your Facebook user account

File System

Connect to File server to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete files in File server.

FreshBooks

FreshBooks is a cloud based small business accounting software. Send invoices, track time, manage receipts and expenses.

Freshdesk

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support solution that will help you streamline your customer service and make sure your customers receive the support they deserve! The Freshdesk connector is intended for Freshdesk agents to manage tickets and contacts.

FTP

Connect to FTP server to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete files in FTP server.

GitHub

GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service. It offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features.

Gmail

Gmail is a web-based email service from Google. With the Gmail connector, you can perform actions such as send or receive e-mail messages, and trigger flows on new e-mails.

Google Calendar

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Contacts

Google Contacts is an online address book, integrated across your Google products and more.

Google Drive

Connect to Google Drive to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete on files in Google Drive.

Google Sheets

Connect to Google Sheet to manage your spreadsheets. You can create, edit, and collaborate with others on spreadsheets.

Google Tasks

Google Tasks is a very simple task list. Works inside Gmail, Android, and Calendar seamlessly.

GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting is an online meeting tool. You can schedule your own meetings or watch for the ones you are invited to.

GoToTraining

Citrix GoToTraining enables you to manage a stable and high-performance online training environment.

GoToWebinar

Citrix GoToWebinar enables you to manage a stable and high-performance online webinar environment.

Harvest

Harvest is a simple tool to help track the time spent by your team on each project and task.

HelloSign

HelloSign enables secure electronic signatures that are business-caliber, easy-to-use and legally binding.

HipChat

HipChat is group chat, video chat and screen sharing tool for teams of all sizes. Built for business, HipChat is persistent, searchable and loaded with goodies your team will love.

Informix

The Informix connector provides an API to work with Informix Databases.

Infusionsoft

Infusionsoft is sales and marketing automation software built exclusively for small business success.

Insightly

Insightly is the easiest customer relationship management solution (CRM) to use for managing deep customer relationships. Customers use Insightly's tightly integrated CRM & project management features to close new business, track post sale customer interactions & drive repeat purchases.

Instagram

Instagram is an online service for sharing pictures with friends and family. Connect to Instagram API to read photo streams on your Instagram account.

Instapaper

Instapaper is a tool for saving web pages to read later. You can create reading lists by organizing pages into folders which can then be accessed from any mobile or web client.

Intercom

Intercom makes messaging apps for businesses that help them understand and talk to consumers.

JIRA

JIRA is a software development tool for agile teams to plan, track, and release world-class software. Connecting JIRA issues to the rest of your tools helps break down barriers and unleash the potential of your team.

LeanKit

Helping teams work together to deliver customer value, faster.

LUIS

Azure cognitive services language understanding intelligent service (LUIS) lets you understand language contextually, so your apps communicate with people in the way they speak.

MailChimp

MailChimp is a SaaS service that allows businesses to manage and automate email marketing activities, including sending marketing emails, automated messages and targeted campaigns.

Mandrill

Mandrill is a transactional email API for MailChimp users. It's reliable, powerful, and ideal for sending data driven emails, including targeted e-commerce and personalized one-to-one messages.

Medium

Medium is a vibrant network of thinkers who care about the world and making it better. Connect to your Medium account to track new publications, write stories and more.

Microsoft Translator

Microsoft Translator lets you translate text

MSN Weather

MSN Weather gets you the very latest weather forecast, including temperature, humidity, precipitation for your location.

Notifications

The notification service enables notifications created by a flow to go to your email account or Microsoft Flow mobile app.

Office 365 Outlook

Office 365 connector enables interaction with Office 365. For example: creating, editing, and updating contacts and calendar items.

Office 365 Users

Office 365 Users Connection provider lets you access user profiles in your organization using your Office 365 account. You can perform various actions such as get your profile, a user's profile, a user's manager or direct reports and also update a user profile.

Office 365 Video

The Office365 Video Connector provides an API to work with office365 channels and videos.

OneDrive

Connect to OneDrive to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete on files in OneDrive.

OneDrive for Business

Connect to OneDrive for Business to manage your files. You can perform various actions such as upload, update, get, and delete on files.

OneNote (Business)

OneNote is a note taking app from Microsoft that makes it easy to sync your ideas, sketches and notes across all your devices! Connect to your Office 365 account with OneDrive for Business enabled to track new sections, create notes and more.

Oracle Database

Oracle Database is a relational database management system developed by Oracle. Connect to on-premise Oracle Database to perform various actions such as create, update, get, and delete on rows in a table.

Outlook Tasks

Outlook Tasks service lets you create, read, synchronize, update and delete your tasks that are secured by Azure Active Directory in Office 365 or a Microsoft account.

Outlook.com

Outlook.com connector allows you to manage your mail, calendars, and contacts. You can perform various actions such as send mail, schedule meetings, add contacts, etc.

PagerDuty

PagerDuty is an agile incident management platform that integrates with IT Ops and DevOps monitoring stacks to improve operational reliability and agility for organizations.

Pinterest

Pinterest allows you to create a bulletin of photos called a Board. You can follow boards, add pins to existing ones or collaborate with people to build shared boards.

Pipedrive

Pipedrive is a CRM & pipeline management tool that helps you focus on actions that matter.

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker is purpose-built to make it easy for you to convert an idea into a set of stories that you can prioritize, assign, and manage through completion.

Power BI

Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights. Connect to get easy access to the data in your Power BI dashboards, reports and datasets.

PowerApps Notification

Send push notifications to apps created with PowerApps. Trigger them from Flows or other apps.

Project Online

Project Online is a flexible online solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work from Microsoft. Delivered through Office 365, Project Online enables organizations to get started quickly with powerful project management capabilities to plan, prioritize, and manage projects and project portfolio investments-from almost anywhere on almost any device.

Redmine

Redmine is a web based tool for software project management.

RSS

RSS is a popular web syndication format used to publish frequently updated content – like blog entries and news headlines. Many content publishers provide an RSS feed to allow users to subscribe to it. Use the RSS connector to retrieve feed information and trigger flows when new items are published in an RSS feed.

Salesforce

The Salesforce Connector provides an API to work with Salesforce objects.

SendGrid

SendGrid Connection Provider lets you send email and manage marketing lists and their recipients.

Service Bus

Connect to Azure Service Bus to send and receive messages. You can perform actions such as send to queue, send to topic, receive from queue, receive from subscription, etc.

SFTP

Connect to SFTP API to send and receive files. You can perform various operations such as create, update, get or delete files.

SharePoint

The SharePoint Connection Provider provides an API to work with Lists on SharePoint.

Slack

Slack is a team communication tool, that brings together all of your team communications in one place, instantly searchable and available wherever you go.

Smartsheet

Smartsheet is a powerful work management and collaboration tool that lets you easily track and manage your work so you and your team can be more productive than ever. Use it to collaborate with others, track progress on any project, automate processes, and better structure your work.

SMTP

Connect to SMTP to send email.

SparkPost

SparkPost API allows you to manage email recipient lists and send emails.

SQL Server

The Sql connector provides an API to work with Sql Databases.

Stripe

Stripe allows private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the internet. You can track customers, orders, invoices and more.

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is the world's leading provider of web-based survey solutions. These solutions are used by companies, organizations, and individuals to gather the insights they need to make more informed decisions.

Text Analytics

Microsoft Cognitive Services Text Analytics detects language, sentiment and more of the text you provide.

Todoist

Todoist is an online task management app and todo list. With Todoist, users can organize, schedule, maintain and prioritize personal tasks.

Toodledo

Toodledo is a powerful online productivity tool. Manage your to-do list by creating and updating tasks.

Trello

Trello gives you perspective over all your projects, at work and at home. It is an easy, free, flexible, and visual way to manage your projects and organize anything. Connect to Trello to manage your boards, lists and cards.

Twilio

Twilio enables apps to send and receive global SMS, MMS and IP messages.

Twitter

Twitter Connection Provider lets you post tweets and get tweets, timeline, friends and followers from your Twitter account.

Typeform

Build beautiful, engaging, and conversational online forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and much more with Typeform.

UserVoice

The UserVoice connector provides an API to work with UserVoice via the Mashup engine.

Vimeo

Vimeo is a powerful tool for video management, marketing, and analytics all in one place.

Visual Studio Team Services

Visual Studio Team Services provides services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software - for any language, all in a single package. It's the perfect complement to your IDE.

WebMerge

Automatically populate templates with data from your favorite cloud apps. Never copy & paste again!

WordPress

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Wunderlist

Wunderlist provide a todo list and task manager to help people get their stuff done. Whether you’re sharing a grocery list with a loved one, working on a project, or planning a vacation, Wunderlist makes it easy to capture, share, and complete your to¬dos. Wunderlist instantly syncs between your phone, tablet and computer, so you can access all your tasks from anywhere.

Yammer

Yammer is a leading social network for businesses to get work done smarter and faster. Connect to Yammer to access conversations in your enterprise network.

YouTube

YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.

Zendesk

Zendesk builds software for better customer relationships. With multiple products in its portfolio, Zendesk provides a customer service and support ticketing platform that gives businesses the ability to handle customer calls, emails, and other technical inquiries from a unified interface.

MSN Weather API

While I don’t think you want to build the next Weather App (there are plenty out there), having the capability of incorporating weather information to your application and correlate to any other data on it is very powerful, whether for planning purposes, delivery, travel plans, or scheduling, or others it can save your users from having to go to multiple places. In addition, with Microsoft Flow you could setup some automated tasks that trigger when the weather changes, and such.

MSN Weather Connector actions supported in PowerApps

What we will be building

For this quick sample we will be creating the following application using PowerApps that allow you to enter a location in the Input box and will provide you the weather, conditions, pressure, and other information. It also allows you to use the current location to get the weather for it. We currently do not have a reverse geocoding API but the MSN Weather API allows you to provide the Location in coordinates. Of course like all other PowerApps, this application will run in iOS (iPhone, iPad), Android, Windows Phone, Web, and Windows Desktop which makes it extremely powerful and all of this in less than five minutes.

Building the Weather App

At a high level the strategy we will use since we want to have the user click the “Search button” as an explicit action, we’ll store the result of calling MSNWeather.CurrentWeather in the OnSelect of the Search button into a context variable that then we’ll use to display in all the other controls. We’ll add another icon to set the current location coordinates. That’s it… nothing else needed.

1. In Windows, launch PowerApps
2. We’ll initialize the default location when first launching the app, for that: on the Screen set the following properties:
1. OnVisible = UpdateContext({LastLocation: "Redmond, WA"})
3. We’ll add the “set the current location” button, for that: Add an Icon (I used the “Map”) icon for simplicity and set the following properties:
1. OnSelect = UpdateContext({LastLocation: Location.Latitude & ", " & Location.Longitude})
4. We’ll load the last location as a default for the textbox: Add a new Text Input control and set the following properties
1. Default = LastLocation
2. HintText = "Enter location"
5. Add the “Units” radio group, for that add a Radio control with the following properties:
1. Items = ["Imperial", "Metric"]
2. Default = "Imperial"
6. We’ll add the Search button, for that:
1. OnSelect = UpdateContext({Weather: MSNWeather.CurrentWeather(TextInput1.Text, Radio1.Selected.Value)})
7. Finally add all the controls to visualize the data, I used the following:
1. Temperature: Weather.responses.weather.current.temp & " " & Weather.units.temperature
2. Conditions: Weather.responses.weather.current.cap
3. Pressure: Weather.responses.weather.current.baro & " " & Weather.units.pressure
4. UV Index: Weather.responses.weather.current.uv & " " & Weather.responses.weather.current.uvDesc
5. Dew Point: Weather.responses.weather.current.dewPt & " o"
6. Humidity: Weather.responses.weather.current.rh & " %"
7. Sky: Weather.responses.weather.current.sky
8. Wind: Weather.responses.weather.current.windSpd & " " & Weather.units.speed
9. Visibility: Weather.responses.weather.current.vis
10. Last Updated: Text(DateTimeValue(Weather.responses.weather.current.created), DateTimeFormat.ShortDateTime)
11. Coordinates: Weather.responses.source.coordinates.lat & ", " & Weather.responses.source.coordinates.lon
12. Open in Browser: Launch(Launch(Weather.responses.source.clickThrough))

Anyway, hopefully this shows how easy it is to add a data source to PowerApps. If you need to learn more about which APIs are available and the properties on each you can go to: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/carlosag/2016/11/22/the-unofficial-powerapps-connectors-reference-draft/

Download a copy of the app here

You can download an early draft here: https://www.carlosag.net/downloads/PowerApps.pdf

Here is a copy of the current table of contents, and would love to hear from you:

• Contents
• About the Author
• Chapter 1 - Getting Started
• What is PowerApps
• Line of business mobile applications
• Dataflow programming
• Main components of PowerApps
• Summary
• Chapter 2 - Building Applications
• Creating your first application
• Running the Application
• Summary
• Chapter 3 – PowerApps Architecture
• Architecture of an application
• Packaging and running applications
• Environments
• Sharing applications
• Summary
• Chapter 4 – PowerApps Studio
• Create New options
• Opening Applications
• Controls and Properties
• Formula bar
• Managing Screens
• Designer
• Options, Data Sources and Advanced Pane
• Collections and Media
• Summary
• Chapter 5 – Formulas, screens, controls and navigation
• Using Formulas
• Screens
• Controls
• Navigation
• Passing Context across Screens
• Practical Navigation models
• Summary
• Chapter 6 – Working with Data
• Context Variables
• Connecting to Data
• Different data sources
• Initialize data
• Collections
• Querying your Data
• Writing Data
• Validating Data
• Optimizing Data
• Summary
• Chapter 7 - Common Data Service
• Standard Entities
• Standard vs Custom Fields
• Creating Custom Entities
• Import and Export of data
• Enumerations
• Excel data
• Managing Permissions
• Summary
• Chapter 8 - Microsoft Flow
• Introducing Microsoft Flow
• Automating your business process
• Different type of flows
• Creating and triggering a flow from PowerApps
• Building an approval process
• Summary
• Chapter 9 – Deploying applications
• Admin Center
• Environments
• Securing your application
• Securing your data
• Managing permissions and policies
• Moving applications across environments
• Summary
• Chapter 10 - Extending PowerApps with Custom APIs
• Custom APIs overview
• Azure App Service and Azure Functions Overview
• Swagger
• Writing your first Custom API
• Authentication options
• Registering Custom APIs
• Summary
• Appendix A: Formula reference
• Appendix B: Creating a Calendar App using PowerApps
  

1. Go to https://flow.microsoft.com/
2. Click My Flows
3. Click Create from blank
4. In this case I will create a very simple flow that runs every hour and that emails me the output of the Azure Function that we created for PowerApps. Notice how as you start typing in the flow designer it will auto complete and find your new Azure Function Custom API:
5. 
6. After selecting that, it will correctly understand the Swagger definition and the input and output parameters and correctly allow you to enter the values, and even cascade and reuse the output results from the function for any other step/action in the flow as below using it as part of the body of the email to be sent.
7. 

Summary

1. Create the Azure Function
2. Define the REST signature using Swagger
3. Add a Custom API in PowerApps
4. Use the new Custom API from a PowerApp

Creating the Azure Function

1. Go to https://functions.azure.com/ and click Get Started.
2. On that page, enter a name and a location for your new Azure Function, in my case I'm using Name:azurefn and Region: West US
3. Click Create + get started. This will take you to the Azure Portal where you can then choose the scenario, in this case use Webhook + API and I’ll be using C# for this example.
4. In this case I’ll leave the default code since that returns “Hello” + the name provided as a parameter in the query string, so you should see something like the following image.
5. At this point our Azure Function is done and you can run it using the Run button at the bottom of the page, or even call it passing the right “code” parameter provided, such as: https://azurefn.azurewebsites.net/api/HttpTriggerCSharp1?name=Carlos&code=h6zt…your-code-here…i

Creating the Swagger to describe the Azure Function REST API

Adding a custom API in PowerApps

Using the new Custom API from a PowerApp

1. Launch PowerApps Studio
2. Create a new PowerApp, in my case I used New –>Blank App –>Phone Layout
3. Go to the Content option in the ribbon and click DataSources.
4. In the Data sources panel click the “Add data source” button, click “+ Add Connection”, and select your Custom API.
5. Once you have added it to the PowerApp you will get Intellisense for it, in my case I called it MyAzureFunction and RunThis, and as you can see in the image below it even gives me the description and the parameter name, in this case “name”.
6. When you run the PowerApp, and you type any values in the TextInput you will see how it automatically tracks the changes and evaluates the formula which will magically perform the right HTTP REST API call to App Service executing our Azure Function and returning the concatenation “Hello ” + name provided.
7. 

Summary

The high level steps to enable that is to:

1. Create the Child Logic App that will be invoked by the parent logic app and any logic to it.
2. Create an Access Key in the Child Logic App so that the Parent Logic App can use that as the user name and password to invoke it.
3. Create the Parent Logic App that uses an action of type “Workflow” and specify the Basic Credentials with the access keys created above.
4. That is all…

Now the biggest challenge right now is that the User Interface does not currently support managing Access Keys for flows as well as adding an Action for it, so we will be using the great ARMClient that David Ebbo built to do that easily through command line.

Create a Child Logic App

Here you can build any logic app the way you would like, in my case I called the Resource Group “logicNewRG”. The most important thing here is to Copy the full URL of the Endpoint since you will be using that to invoke this workflow from the Parent Logic App. You can do that in the Blade that shows the Endpoint, in my case since I deployed it to North Central US it looks something like: https://northcentralus.logic.azure.com/subscriptions/049c02d1-000-0000-0000-0000000/resourceGroups/logicNewRG/providers/Microsoft.Logic/workflows/ChildLogicApp

Create an Access Key for the Logic App

This is the most complicated part today since there is currently no support for the UI to manage the access keys, however it is simple enough to do that through command line.

Install ARM Client: Using Chocolatey it is very easy to install ARM Client, you can just run: choco install armclient

Once you do that you can run the following:

And that will return the actual keys: (note that there are two so you can rollover your keys and have no downtime easily):

{
  "primarySecretKey": "uzdaaa18wbccccccc….FpdQ",
  "secondarySecretKey": "4Kpdddp7Rccc….DPyUVX6HeKw"
}

Create the Parent Logic App

To create the parent logic app you will need to edit manually the Code in the designer for the actual invocation of the Workflow by entering an action of type “Workflow”.

                "uri": "https://northcentralus.logic.azure.com/subscriptions/049c02d1...734c/resourceGroups/logicNewRG/providers/Microsoft.Logic/workflows/ChildLogicApp",

Passing data to the child logic app

Notice that in this case I’m also passing some data, like a generated GUID to the flow that then can be referenced in the child logic app with something like: @triggers().outputs.somedata.

Returning data back to the Parent Logic App

You can send data back to the parent workflow by using the Outputs in the child logic app, such as: