{"id":12641,"date":"2020-12-17T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/github-connector-features-for-power-platform\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T05:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:52:09","slug":"github-connector-features-for-power-platform","status":"publish","type":"power-apps","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-apps\/github-connector-features-for-power-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub connector features for Power Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to share how the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/connectors\/github\/\">GitHub Connector<\/a>\u00a0makes it possible to build self service CI\/CD apps using Power Apps and\u00a0 Power Automate and how the Power Customer Advisory Team (CAT) has even built an app for you to get started!<\/p>\n<p>With GitHub Connector, you can create a GitHub repo, create a pull request, merge a pull request, compare commits, trigger a GitHub actions workflow and much more from Power Apps and Power Automate.<\/p>\n<p>The GitHub connector works perfectly with the <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/blog\/github-actions-for-the-power-platform-now-available-in-preview\/\">GitHub Actions for Power Platform<\/a> released in preview recently. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/connectors\/github\/#create-a-repository-dispatch-event\">create a repository dispatch event<\/a> can be used in Power Automate or Power Apps to trigger a GitHub actions workflow in your repo. See how to set it up below or jump straight to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/powerapps-tools\/tree\/master\/Administration\/CoEStarterKit\/PowerOps\">this repo<\/a>\u00a0to setup and use the PowerOps app from Power CAT that has taken the concept to the next level.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a manually triggered Cloud Flow, and search for the <strong>GitHub<\/strong> Connector.<\/li>\n<li>Select the action <strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Create a repository dispatch event.<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12679\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-1.png\" width=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-1.webp 789w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-1-300x179.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-1-768x458.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Enter the following details and save the flow:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Repository Owner<\/strong> \u2013 This is your GitHub Organization name.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Repository Name<\/strong> \u2013 This is your GitHub Repo name.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Event Name<\/strong> \u2013 This is the name of trigger that your GitHub workflow is listening to.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12680\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-2.png\" width=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-2.webp 568w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-2-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In your GitHub workflow definition (yml file), e<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">nsure that your workflow has the following trigger:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/em><em>\u00a0repository_dispatch:<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0 types: &lt;Event Name entered in the flow definition in step 3 above&gt;<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12682\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-4-1.png\" width=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-4-1.webp 613w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-4-1-300x159.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Test the flow and validate that your GitHub actions workflow is triggered in your repo.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12688\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-save-and-test.png\" width=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-save-and-test.webp 591w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GH-Blog-save-and-test-300x110.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>We encourage you to try this out for yourself and to explore the PowerOps app mentioned earlier in this post. The PowerOps app is the first of a set of investments Power CAT is making in building sample implementations that will help you be more productive with ALM on the Power Platform. The team will share more details on the Power Apps blog soon. Stay tuned&#8230;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the GitHub Connector in Power Apps and Power Automate to run GitHub Actions workflows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","power-apps-category":[1540,1563,1599,1664,1675],"power-apps-tag":[],"coauthors":[2062],"class_list":["post-12641","power-apps","type-power-apps","status-publish","hentry","power-apps-category-alm","power-apps-category-prodev","power-apps-category-dynamics-365","power-apps-category-uncategorized","power-apps-category-admin-features"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GitHub connector features for Power Platform - Microsoft Power Platform Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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