{"id":7637,"date":"2019-12-17T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/canvas-components-get-support-for-connectors\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:00:51","slug":"canvas-components-get-support-for-connectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/canvas-components-get-support-for-connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas components get support for connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"
Connectors can now be used in canvas components! I am excited to announce availability of one of the most requested features for canvas components, with supporting API data sources as a first step. Check out how it makes components more powerful and interesting.<\/p>\n
Components now get access to all API data sources included the app containing the component definitions.<\/p>\n
Sharing components with data sources is simple.\u00a0A connection consent dialog prompts confirming adding the connections when importing a component with data sources.<\/p>\n
Check out sample components made with data sources.<\/p>\n
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Connector: Outlook<\/p>\n
Function: View list of emails, read emails, and reply. This component is made responsive as shown.<\/p>\n
Note: Ensure ‘Formula-level error management’ is turned on in app settings.<\/p>\n
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Connector: Outlook<\/p>\n
Function: Send email.<\/p>\n
Note: Ensure ‘Formula-level error management’ is turned on in app settings.<\/p>\n
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Connector: Office User<\/p>\n
Function: Search people in the organization and view contact card.<\/p>\n
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Check out more examples at community canvas component gallery<\/a>. Learn about component feature (link<\/a>). Share your feedback and ideas on the community forum with #component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Connectors can now be used in canvas components! I am excited to announce availability of one of the most requested features for canvas components, with supporting API data sources as a first step. Check out how it makes components more powerful and interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_id":[],"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","_alt_title":"","ms-ems-related-posts":[],"footnotes":""},"audience":[3378],"content-type":[],"job-role":[],"product":[3473],"property":[],"topic":[3421],"coauthors":[2083],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","audience-it-professional","product-power-apps","topic-application-modernization"],"yoast_head":"\n