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5 years ago

PowerBIIntegration in Power Apps - Does Not Work For Existing Apps

When adding a Power Apps visual and dragging some columns into it, I am then trying to add an existing app.   If I select the app, Edge then opens up and displays the app and the PowerBIIntegration...
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5 years ago

So from the Microsoft documentation (first link):

But from the second link:

"An existing app works only if it were previously created from the Power BI service. If you want to use existing app, you may need to make some changes to get the data integration part work properly, PowerBIIntegration is key for data integration between Power BI and PowerApps. "

 

The official docs only mention that using an app not created in Power BI will prevent the use of Refresh() on the connection, but the second blog seems to suggest apps created outside of Power BI will not integrate at all. Can you clarify what is correct?

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5 years ago

Anonymous do you have any update on this? It's potentially an issue with the official documentation. I'd also like to know if I've been going the wrong route on integrating apps as this could save a lot of time and frustration.