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Hi all,

I'm wanting to create a list of all components/items (e.g. Buttons, Text Labels, Containers, Screens.....etc), including all of their individual properties (found in the right-hand menu when creating an app).

I've tried asking Co-Pilot (full license), but can't seem to get it to complete the task.

I can't tell whether it's Co-Pilot being unable to actually do what I need, or whether it's my organisation's strict security protocols that are blocking it from carrying out the task.

Is anyone able to advise?

Is this something that is usually possible in other organisations?

If it can be done, I need to have enough information on how to do it so that I can relay this info to an IT team that don't have previous experience of Power Platform.

I've added a screenshot below of a simple example to show roughly what I mean.....

Thanks.

Sam

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Michael E. Gernaey 52,906 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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HI @CU09091727-0

Actually yes.. and its not so bad really.

Ok let me explain. Each Power Automate Flow and App Screen etc is saved as Text when you export it, you just need to know what file to look at, heck you can ever grab Connections, Connection References anything you want.

I do it to analyze customers Power Automate Flows with Prompts I built myself.

So you can use PACLI or Power Shell to publish the solution, then export the App and or the Flows or both.

Then you can leverage the text files themselves inside of Copilot to do it, but it will take practice to write good prompts, that or create your own text processing to do it.

So its possible, and the above is how I do it. I do this because I use GIT and DevOps and I usually break my solutions apart so I can analyze them like this and then put them back together for my pipelines.

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Thank you!
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Hi @CU09091727-0,

You can also go to the tree view on the left, select a screen, click on the "three dots" and select </> View code then the Copy code button at bottom left. This produces a full YAML code set for the screen listing all the things you mention. You will need to do each screen.

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@CU09091727-0 You can generate technical documentation with complete details of all the screen, controls, components, formulas, properties etc for your app by getting the free Power Docu tool from github. I use it regularly to document my apps & flows. Once installed on your computer and you've exported your app as a zip file, run the large .exe file (169Mb) which takes about 30 seconds to load but then it only takes a few seconds to select the app and generate a (quite-lengthy) Word document with everything including images of the navigation and, if it's a flow, detailed images of the flow..

https://github.com/modery/PowerDocu

...and there are videos on using it on YouTube as well.

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List all components/items in a Power App, including their individual properties.

Thanks @WarrenBelz. That's exactly what I need.

Appreciate the others and the methods offered, as I'm sure they're also great, but our organisation has a lot security features and download/use of external software and files is very strictly guarded, so unfortunately I'm unable to test them out myself and therefore can't confirm whether they would answer my question.

Hopefully other people reading the post will know that they have a few different options to try. :)

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Hi @CU09091727-0

I am not sure what you mean by external files, my suggestion is used all over the world for this purpose exactly and are Microsoft provided things for this.

You said you wanted something for Copilot, while I appreciate what @WarrenBelz says, manually copying the stuff every time isn't a great solution, what I stated is the DevOps way, especially if you start using Managed Environments but in the end whatever solution works for you is what you should use :-)

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