Requirements:

In this blog, we will learn how to send an email on the trigger of a button in the Canvas app by using Power Automate.

Implementation:

• Go to https://make.powerapps.com.
• Click on “Apps” on the left navigation panel.
• Select “Canvas.”
• If you do not want to create a new Canvas app, you can use the old one.

• Give a title to your Canvas app.
• Select any layout, here we have selected a “Tablet” layout.
• Click on “Create.”

• Click on “Insert.”
• Now add a “Text label” and change the text value to “Send an email.”

• Place this text label at the top for creating a Header.
• Add 3 more “Text labels” and place them vertically.
• And change their names to “To,” “Subject,” and “Body.”

• Add 3 “Text inputs” and place them parallel to “Text labels.”
• Rename “Text inputs” and “Text labels” from the tree view on the left pane.
• And remove the default value from the “Text inputs.”

• Change the display mode of “Bodyinput” (text input) “single line” to “Multiline.”

• Click on “Insert.”
• Select “Button.”
• Change the button name from the tree view in the left navigation pane.
• Change the text properties of the button to “Send” from the properties pane on the right.

• Let’s create a Power automate.
• Go to https://make.powerapps.com.
• Sign into power apps.
• Click on “Flows” in the left navigation panel > “+New flow.”
• Select “Instant cloud flow.”

• Give a title to your flow.
• Select “PowerApps.”
• Click on “create.”
• Now, we will trigger the flow from Canvas app.

• Click on “+ New step.”

• Search “Send an email” in the new step.
• Select “Send an email(V2).”
• Here, we are using office 365 outlook for sending emails.

• In the next step Click on “To.”
• And add dynamic content.
• Click on “Ask in power apps” it will automatically fill dynamic content in the “To” data card.

• Now click on “Subject” > “See more” > “Ask in power apps.”
• It will suggest dynamic content for the “subject.”
• Do follow the same step for “Body.”

• Your flow will look like this and save your flow by clicking on “Save.”

• Let’s connect this Canvas app to power automate.
• Click on the “power automate” on the left navigation panel in Canvas app.
• Then click on “+Add flow.”
• Select the flow which we have created.

• Click on the button, and write this function on the “OnSelect” property of a button.

Sendemail.Run(ToInput.Text,SubjectInput.Text,BodyInput.Text);Reset(BodyInput);Reset(ToInput);Reset(SubjectInput)

• Save and publish.

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