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 Step1 : Add the SharePoint Online list connection to your Code App using the following command: pac code add-data-source -a <connection name> -c <API ID> -d <SharePoint Site(encoded)> -t <list id> The process of retrieving the connection name and API ID has already been explained in Part 1 and Part 2 of the blog. Please refer to those sections if you are not familiar with how to obtain them. For the SharePoint site , you must provide the encoded URL . The required format is double URL encoding (also known as percent-encoding applied twice). How it works Normal characters in a URL are encoded once using percent-encoding (RFC 3986) : : → %3A / → %2F If you encode that result again , the % character itself becomes %25 : %3A → %253A %2F → %252F So: https: // → https% 3 A% 2 F%2F (once encoded) https% 3 A% 2 F%2F → https%253A%252F%252F In simple terms, you need to encode the SharePoint site URL twice. First, encode the Sha...

Please refer to the following blog for a step-by-step guide on creating Code Apps :  https://mspowerplatformtips.blogspot.com/2025/08/creating-code-apps-in-power-apps-step.html Setting up connection to connector for code apps. Create and set up connections in Maker Portal  You will need to start by creating and configuring connections at https://make.powerapps.com and you’ll need to copy connection metadata from there for use in later steps. 1. Launch the Maker Portal Connections page Go to  https://make.powerapps.com  and navigate to the Connections page from the left-hand navigation. 2. Create an Office 365 Users connection Click “+ New connection” and select Office 365 Users. Click “Create”. Then open the connection in Url you can see connection ID Get connection metadata for all created connections  You can use the Power Apps CLI to list your available connections and retrieve their IDs: pac connection list This command will display a table of all your ...

Intro In this post I’ll walk you through how I set up a code-based app for Power Apps (React/Vite front-end + Power Platform CLI for packaging/deployment), the exact errors I ran into, and how I solved them. If you want a hands-on, copy-paste able guide that covers Node versions, pac auth, environment issues, and packaging tips, this is for you. Prerequisites Microsoft 365 account with access to a Power Platform environment Node.js ( 20.19+  recommended LTS) VS Code Install power platform tools extension in VS Code. Steps: Step 1 : Open Visual Studio Code and launch the integrated terminal. Step 2: In the terminal, run the following commands one by one.   mkdir D:\CodeApps - Force cd D:\CodeApps npm create vite @latest myfirstapp -- -- template react - ts cd D:\CodeApps\myfirstapp npm install Initially, I ran the command: npm create vite@latest MyFirstApp -- --template react-ts This gave the error: Invalid package.json name The issue was caused because package...