{"loaderData":{"0-11":{"posts":[{"id":1466,"slug":"how-to-make-a-custom-connector-for-powerapps-and-flow-that-calls-the-microsoft-graph-api","title":"HOW TO: Make a custom connector for PowerApps and Flow that calls the Microsoft Graph API","content":"[ Updated September 12, 2018 - Changed instructions to create an app registration made through the Azure portal and updated the screens to make the custom connector to match product revisions. ]\n\nThis post describes how to create a custom connector (API connector) to call the Microsoft Graph API from PowerApps and Flows. This process is especially helpful to know when you would like to use the MS Graph API from a PowerApp and/or Flow and there is no connector available for the MS Graph API you wish to invoke.\n

Register an application and specify permissions

The first step is registering an application in the Microsoft Azure Portal.

\n1. Sign into the https://portal.azure.com with an account that has permissions to make Azure Active Directory applications.\n\n2. In the menu on the left, click Azure Active Directory\n\n3. Click App registrations\n\n4. Click New application registration\n\n5. Enter a Name \n\nNote: Throughout this example, the name IgniteCustomConnector is used.\n\n6. In Application type, select Web app / API\n\n7. In Sign-on URL enter\n

   https://msmanaged-na.consent.azure-apim.net/redirect

\n8. Copy the Application ID value\n\n9. Open Notepad or another text editor\n\n10. Paste the Application ID in the text file\n\n11. Save the text file\n\n12. Click Settings\n\n13. Click Keys\n\n14. In the Passwords section enter a key Description\n\n15. Select a value in the Expires drop down list\n\n16. Click Save\n\n17. Copy the key value\n\n18. Open Notepad or another text editor\n\n19. Paste the key value in the text file\n\n20. Save the text file\n\n21. Click Required permissions\n\n22. Click Add\n\n23. Click Select an API\n\n24. Select Microsoft Graph\n\n25. Click Select\n

The next step is granting the delegated permissions your application needs to interact with the MS Graph API.

\nIn this example we need the Read directory data (Directory.Read.All) and the Read all groups (Group.Read.All) delegated permissions.\n\n26. In the DELEGATED PERMISSIONS section, select the check boxes next to Read directory data and Read all groups.\n\n27. Click Select\n\n28. Click Done\n\nNote: When developing your own apps, make sure you add the permissions your application needs to perform other operations with the MS Graph API.\n

Generate Swagger File

The API you use in the custom connector is described in JSON format.

\n1. Open Postman\n\n2. Click Collections\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n3. Click the new collection button\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n4. In the Name textbox, enter a name for the collection\n\nNote: In this example, the name IgniteDemo is used.\n\n5. Click Create\n\nThe collection bundles all of the Graph API calls we wish to make available in the custom connector.\n\n6. In the Get textbox, enter the URL of the Graph API you wish to invoke\n\nIn this example, we are calling two different Graph APIs so we enter each URL one at a time and save it to the collection.\n\nReturn the members of an AAD Group:\n

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/:groupId/members

\nReturn the tasks in a bucket in a Microsoft Planner plan\n

 https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/planner/buckets/:bucketId/tasks

\nNotice the path parameter is in the ‘:groupId’ format\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n7. Click the Save button\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n8. In the Save to existing collection / folder dropdown list, select the collection you created\n\n9. Click Save\n\n10. To add another MS Graph API call, click the + button, then repeat the steps to add the URL and save it to the collection\n\n $\"\"$ \n\nHere you can see both of the example MS Graph API calls we are making in Postman.\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n11. Click the ellipses button for the collection you created and select Export\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n12. Select the Collection V1 radio button\n13. Click Export\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n14. Select a folder on your computer\n\n15. Click Save\n

Create custom connector

\n1. In a web browser, open the PowerApps web app in Office 365\n

 https://web.powerapps.com

\n2. Click Data, then click Custom Connectors\n\n3. Click Manage custom connectors\n\n4. Click the + Create custom connector button\n\n5. Select Import a Postman collection\n\n6. Click the folder button\n\n7. Select the JSON file you exported from Postman\n\n8. Click Open\n\n9. Enter the custom connector name\n\nNote: In this example, the name IgniteCustomConnector is used.\n\n10. Click Continue\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n11. Click Security\n\n12. In the Choose what authentication is implemented by your API dropdown list, select OAuth 2.0\n\n13. In the OAuth 2.0 section, in the Identity Provider dropdown list, select Azure Active Directory (Outlook works too)\n\n14. In the Client id text box, enter the Application Id you saved to Notepad\n\n15. In the Client Secret text box, enter the Key value you saved to Notepad\n\n16. In the Scope text box, enter the permissions you configured when you made the application (Directory.Read.All, Group.Read.All)\n\n17. In the Resource URL text box, enter https://graph.microsoft.com\n\n18. Click Definition\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n14. Change the Operation Id to a valid name format. In this case, we use GetMembers and GetTasks\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n15. Click Create connector\n\n16. Click the Test tab\n\n17. Click New connection\n\n18. Click Create\n\n19. Sign in to your Office 365 account\n\nNote: the account you use must be an admin account\n\n20. Click Accept\n\nNote: if you get this error in this step, please check the redirect URL of the application is configured right.\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n21. After the connection is added, navigate to the Test step again\n\n22. Select the connection you just created\n\n23. Test each operation you created, then copy the Response Body and save each Response body to a separate text file\n\nFor more information about the parameters, see this document.\n\nhttps://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/overview\n

Testing the GetMembers operation

\nNote: Make sure the result is not empty.\n\n $\"\"$ \n

Testing the GetTasks operation

\nNote: Make sure the result is not empty.\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n24. In Definition tab, scroll to Response section\n25. Click Add default response, then paste in the corresponding Response Body you saved in the text files into the Body textbox. Do this for both of the actions.\n26. Click Import\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n27. Click Update Connector\n\nThe Custom Connector for Microsoft Graph is now ready to use!\n

Add the custom connector to a PowerApp and test

These steps describe how to configure a connection with custom connector in a PowerApp. This PowerApp will list the members of an AAD Group.

\n1. Create a new PowerApp by clicking the New app button\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n2. Select the Blank app with Phone layout\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n3. Select Insert on top navbar\n\n4. Click Gallery\n\n5. Select Vertical to add a gallery control\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n6. Select the gallery control\n\n7. Click the dropdown arrow in the Gallery1 options\n\n8. Click the Add a data source button\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n9. Select the connection for the custom connector\n\n10. Modify the Items attribute of the gallery to use .GetMembers(“GROUP ID”).value\n\n11. Replace the with the name of the data connection\n\n12. Replace the GROUP ID with your own AAD Group Id\n\n13. Change the layout of the gallery to Title and subtitle, then select mail in Subtitle2 and select displayName in Title2\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n14. Click Run on top navbar, the list of users is shown in the gallery\n\n $\"\"$ \n

Add the custom connector to a Flow and test

These steps describe how to configure a connection with a custom connector in a Flow. This Flow will list the members of an AAD Group.

\n1. Navigate to https://flow.microsoft.com\n\n2. Click My flows\n\n3. Click Create from Blank\n\n4. Click Create from Blank again\n\n5. Create a Schedule – Recurrence trigger, and configure it like this\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n6. Click New Step\n\n7. Click Add an action\n\n8. In the search textbox enter Ignite\n\n9. Click IgniteCustomConnector – Get Members\n\n9. In the groupId textbox enter your own AAD GroupId\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n10. Click the ellipses for the action that returns the group members\n\n11. Click Rename\n\n12. Enter Get Members\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n13. In the Flow name enter Test Graph API\n\n14. Click Save\n\n15. Click the back arrow\n\n16. Click More > Run now in the Flow detail page\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n17. Click Run flow in popup window\n\n18. Click See flow run activity\n\n19. Click the last entry in the Flow run log\n\n $\"\"$ \n\n20. Click the Get Members action to expand it\n\n21. 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If you set up XCode to integrate with Claude you may find the OAuth token expires and the chat in XCode cannot communicate with Claude, then you see this error message.

OAuth token has expired. Please obtain a new token or refresh your existing token.

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To resolve this issue quickly open XCode Settings > Intelligence.

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Click the ellipses next to your account, and select Sign Out.

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Click the ellipses again and select Sign In.

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This will open a web browser where you can sign in and click Authorize.

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Restart XCode.

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Happy coding!

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If you set up XCode to integrate with Claude you may find the OAUth token expires and the chat in XCode cannot communicate with Claude. Here's how to fix it.

","date":"2026-04-01T21:22:55","modified":"2026-04-01T21:22:57","author":"Todd Baginski","authorSlug":"todd","categories":[{"id":146,"name":"AI","slug":"ai","count":1}],"tags":[{"id":148,"name":"Claude","slug":"claude","count":1},{"id":10,"name":"Custom Development","slug":"custom-development","count":87},{"id":147,"name":"XCode","slug":"xcode","count":1}],"featuredImage":"/blog/uploads/2026/04/xcode-claude.png","status":"publish"},{"id":2165,"slug":"how-to-disable-turn-off-a-power-platform-managed-environment","title":"HOW TO: Disable/Turn Off a Power Platform Managed Environment","content":"\n

What do you do if you accidentally enabled a Managed Environment in the Power Platform and you want to make the Environment non-Managed again? There is no way in the Power Platform Admin Center to Disable / Turn Off a Managed Environment, you can only Enable or Delete Managed Environments in the Admin Center. To Disable / Turn Off a Managed Environment, and go back to a non-Managed Environment, you must use PowerShell. Here's how to do it:

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Open a PowerShell prompt as Administrator.

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Install PowerShell

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Install-Module -Name Microsoft.PowerApps.Administration.PowerShell

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Log in with an account that has permissions to administer Environments. The following command will open an authentication prompt. The prompt supports MFA.

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Add-PowerAppsAccount -Endpoint prod

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Run this code that sets protectionLevel to Basic, which turns an Environment from Managed to non-Managed.

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$UpdatedGovernanceConfiguration = [pscustomobject]@{ protectionLevel = \"Basic\" }

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Run this command to apply the changes to the Environment you want to convert from Managed to non-Managed. Make sure to replace the Environment Id accordingly.

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Set-AdminPowerAppEnvironmentGovernanceConfiguration -EnvironmentName -UpdatedGovernanceConfiguration $UpdatedGovernanceConfiguration

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Here's what it all looks like:

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Here's the Microsoft documentation that describes part of this process.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/managed-environment-enable#disable-managed-environments-using-powershell

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What do you do if you accidentally enabled a Managed Environment in the Power Platform and you want to make the Environment non-Managed again?

","date":"2024-10-15T16:47:48","modified":"2024-10-15T16:47:49","author":"Todd Baginski","authorSlug":"todd","categories":[{"id":103,"name":"Cloud","slug":"cloud","count":68},{"id":120,"name":"Flow","slug":"flow","count":18},{"id":104,"name":"Office 365","slug":"office-365","count":80},{"id":121,"name":"PowerApps","slug":"powerapps","count":57}],"tags":[{"id":42,"name":"Cloud","slug":"cloud","count":46},{"id":10,"name":"Custom Development","slug":"custom-development","count":87},{"id":5,"name":"Helpful Code","slug":"helpful-code","count":70},{"id":122,"name":"HOW TO: PowerApps","slug":"how-to-powerapps","count":38},{"id":54,"name":"Mobile","slug":"mobile","count":66},{"id":112,"name":"PowerApps","slug":"powerapps","count":56}],"featuredImage":"/blog/uploads/2024/10/sunset-ocean.jpg","status":"publish"},{"id":2143,"slug":"how-to-make-a-diy-lacrosse-goal-transporter","title":"HOW TO: Make a DIY lacrosse goal transporter","content":"\n

There are several products on the market that make it easy to move your lacrosse goal. I investigated them and then created my own to save my yard, my back, and my money. An added bonus is you can store your goal on the transporter to keep it off the ground and free from dirt and moisture.

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This is especially helpful if you have ECD targets, a Smart Backstop shooting net, and a Lax Dog strapped to your goal, which makes it quite heavy! These are not affiliate links, I don't make any money off them. Just thought I'd share the links because we really enjoy these products.

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Hopefully this article helps out my brothers and sisters in the lax community.

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Parts

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1 - 4x4x8' #2 Ground Contact Green pressure-treated timber - $10.30

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1 - 2x4x8' #2 Ground Contact Green pressure treated lumber - $3.89

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1 - 21\" #2 Ground Contact Green pressure-treated timber - $0.00 *

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19 - #9 2 1/2\" coated deck screws - $0.00 *

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2 - 5/8\" x 8\" galvanized lag screws - $3.39 (these become the wheel axles)

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2 - 8\" Pneumatic Utility Tire (no flat) - $20.57 (comes with plastic spacers - you could cut a small pipe to make a spacer too)

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* Already had these items in my shop from previous projects.

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Total: $38.15

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Instructions

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Lay the goal on top of the 4x4.

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Mark the 4x4 where you want to cut it. Leave a little room on the ends to install a stopper (scroll down to see the picture with the stopper) to prevent the goal from sliding off the end. I left about 2\" of space on either side of the goal.

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Cut the 4x4 to the length that makes sense for your goal. I went with 80\" for my 4x4.

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Mark the center of each end of the 4x4. Then use a 7/16\" (or the appropriate size bit that is small enough that the threads on the lag screw will still bite into the wood) drill bit to drill a hole as deep as the threads on your lag screw. The lag screws are the axles for the wheels. In my case I used a boring bit, and the hole was over 4\" deep. This is the most important step. If you drill this hole off-center or off-axis the tires will not be aligned properly. If the pressure treated wood is fresh and wet, this could be challenging. Take your time, get it right the first time.

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Use a large socket wrench to screw the lag screws into the 4x4 until all the threads are engaged. Don't put your wheel or spacer on yet. Leave them off so you can concentrate on screwing in the screw perfectly. This is the 2nd most important step. If you screw it in on an angle, the tires will not be aligned properly. This is not easy; you will need to put a lot of muscle into this.

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Use a large socket wrench to un-screw the lag screws from the 4x4 all the way. Be careful when you take out the lag screw, it could be quite hot from the friction.

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Lay the goal on top of the 4x4 and center it.

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This picture shows the pieces described in the next set of steps.

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Cut some of the 21\" 2x4 to make little stoppers for top ends of the 4x4. You will do this 2 times, one for each end.

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Align the stopper on top of the 4x4 and drill holes in the 2x4 stopper you just made. Go all the way through so you mark the 4x4 with holes. Remove the stopper and finish drilling out the holes in the 4x4. You will do this 2 times, one for each end.

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Screw the stoppers to the 4x4 with the deck screws. You will do this 2 times, one for each end.

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Cut some 2x4 to make a brace for the goal posts to prevent the goal from sliding off the 4x4. I made my braces 8\" long. You will do this 2 times, one for each goal post.

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Align the brace on the side of the 4x4 and drill holes in the 2x4 braces you just made. Go all the way through so you mark the 4x4 with holes. Remove the brace and finish drilling out the holes in the 4x4. You will do this 2 times, one for each end.

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Screw the brace to the 4x4 with the deck screws. You will do this 2 times, one for each end.

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Align the 2x4 in the middle of the 4x4 make the end flush to the edge of the 4x4. Drill holes in the 2x4 and go all the way through so you mark the 4x4 with holes. Remove the brace and finish drilling out the holes in the 4x4.

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Screw the 2x4 to the 4x4 with the deck screws.

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Pass the lag screw through the wheel, add the spacer on the other side, then use the large socket wrench to tighten the screw. You will do this 2 times, one for each end.

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Walk around the back of your goal and grab the 2x4 and lift up the goal.

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Now, add a little flair and make it easier to lift the 2x4 by adding a custom handle. This beauty was made by my Dad when he created our treehouse when I was a boy. It lives on today as part of our lacrosse transporter! I attached it with 2 deck screws.

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Move your goal to a suitable location and rip some Gs!

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Here are some more pictures that show everything from a few different angles.

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