{"id":34069,"date":"2023-02-23T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=34069"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:39:12","slug":"transfer-online-files-to-a-local-device-using-download-function-in-power-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/transfer-online-files-to-a-local-device-using-download-function-in-power-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer online files to a local device using \u2018Download function\u2019 in Power Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Microsoft announced a powerful feature -\u201cDownload function in Power Apps\u201d. This feature allows us to easily download online files from the web to the local device.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see how to use this feature in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose our organization wants to create an App (Canvas or Model Driven App) in Dynamics CRM. We have a file on the web that we want to enable our users to download regularly through our App. This would get them updated data by simply clicking on <strong>Download File<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This can be achieved using the below steps:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Create an App in CRM (Canvas or Model Driven App).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Insert Label Control into App.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34072\" style=\"border: 1px solid #0a0a0a; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1Power-Apps.jpeg\" alt=\"Power Apps\" width=\"1362\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1Power-Apps.jpeg 1362w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1Power-Apps-300x128.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1Power-Apps-1024x435.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1Power-Apps-768x326.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1Power-Apps-660x281.jpeg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1362px) 100vw, 1362px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Power Apps, select the label and in Power Fx, onSelect of label, add Formula with <strong>Address<\/strong> as a Parameter \u201cDownload (<strong>Address<\/strong>)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Address<\/strong>&#8211; The URL address of a document or file to download<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34071\" style=\"border: 1px solid #0a0a0a; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2Power-Apps.jpeg\" alt=\"Power Apps\" width=\"1364\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2Power-Apps.jpeg 1364w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2Power-Apps-300x129.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2Power-Apps-1024x441.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2Power-Apps-768x331.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2Power-Apps-660x285.jpeg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1364px) 100vw, 1364px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once you publish the app, you can click on <strong>Download File<\/strong> to download it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34070\" style=\"border: 1px solid #0a0a0a; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3Power-Apps.jpeg\" alt=\"Power Apps\" width=\"1364\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3Power-Apps.jpeg 1364w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3Power-Apps-300x130.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3Power-Apps-1024x442.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3Power-Apps-768x332.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/3Power-Apps-660x285.jpeg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1364px) 100vw, 1364px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With the help of download function in Power Apps, we can easily download online files to local devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Microsoft-Power-Platform-3-1.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Power Platform (3)\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Microsoft-Power-Platform-3-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Microsoft-Power-Platform-3-1-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Microsoft-Power-Platform-3-1-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Microsoft-Power-Platform-3-1-660x165.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Microsoft announced a powerful feature -\u201cDownload function in Power Apps\u201d. This feature allows us to easily download online files from the web to the local device. Let\u2019s see how to use this feature in everyday life. Suppose our organization wants to create an App (Canvas or Model Driven App) in Dynamics CRM. We have\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/transfer-online-files-to-a-local-device-using-download-function-in-power-apps\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1913,44,1929,2053,2361],"tags":[1337],"class_list":["post-34069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynamics-365-v9-2","category-microsoft-power-platform-services","category-power-apps","category-pcf","category-power-apps-portals","category-technical","tag-power-apps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}