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Error when trying to retrieve data from network

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Hi guys,

 

I am in need of your expertise as I am quite stumped on this. We have a PowerApp that for all intents and purposes was working quite happily around a month ago with no issues ( version 3.21085.24). The last 2 weeks, we have been experiencing a slow down of the app until last week Friday where it has completely now become unusable (current version 3.21094.25). 

 

In the past month I only added an extra sharepoint list to the PowerApp, and have begun optimising some bad code so you would think the experience should have improved with optmisations. I restored a version of the PowerApp to 8 weeks ago where I know for a fact we had no issues - however even on that version we are still experiencing a massive slow down on retrieving data.

 

I parse through all data from sharepoint to a collect first before displaying results, there are no instances of displaying data directly from a sharepoint library.

 

According to our network team, no ports were blocked recently in the firewall to prevent this from happening.

 

The error message I get from from the Monitor is " Error when trying to retrieve data from network".

 

Any guidelines would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you need more info or data or screengrabs

 

thank you!

 

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  • cbrenn Profile Picture
    9 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Here is one person's solution to this error message which has not been listed as a fix here - (we shall see if links are OK)  How to fix - Error when trying to retrieve data from the network | Hardit Bhatia: The Power Addict

  • cbrenn Profile Picture
    9 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Just to confirm - you got the error:  "Error when trying to retrieve data from network" when the issue was SharePoint permissions?

  • juliowastaken Profile Picture
    75 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    how did you check the file size of the list?

  • deeman Profile Picture
    16 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Hi there

     

    From my side there have been 2 major issues. 1) Massive internet outage that effects the Azure region. 2) One of my lists reached 30 GB and thus caused the issue. I had make some adjustments to reduce the size footprint to solve the issue

  • hussein1999 Profile Picture
    2 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Hello 

    I am experiencing the same problem when I try to use the app on my mobile phone; the same error keeps appearing.

    I have attempted all the solutions listed in the comments, but the issue persists.

    Could you please inform me how you managed to solve it?

  • Hariketan Profile Picture
    2 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Please can you tell me what was that Permissions setting

     

  • RobHajj98 Profile Picture
    496 on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Microsoft confirmed that there is a global outage due to an API update that is also affected for Power Automate.

  • Palendren10 Profile Picture
    on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Solved: Re: Cannot connect to data - Page 5 - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com), Issue is on Microsofts side. They communicated here in the "Accepted Solution"

  • Palendren10 Profile Picture
    on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Solved: Re: Cannot connect to data - Page 5 - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com), see the accepted solution here. It is not really a solution by Microsoft communicated they are working on the issue. You can follow the updates here.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on at
    Re: Error when trying to retrieve data from network

    Yes, @Palendren10 facing the same issue here.

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