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Hi there - I created an app that is used for a week each month, the time that it is not available, I move a screen to the top of the order that just says something like "sorry this is closed." I am trying to figure out if there is a good way to create an admin screen that can turn the app on and off or make things visible/not visible for a specific date range. We want multiple people to be able to act as an "admin" and control the app.

Do I need to create something in SharePoint that admins can update to turn things on/off, etc?

Thanks for any insights!

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mmollet 3,187 on at

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You can use those user's email address to let them into the app to a 'hidden' admin screen.
If(User().Email = "oneuser@email.com" Or User().Email = "twouser@email.com", Navigate(adminScreen), Navigate(userScreen))
If you want this to be disabled for certain days of the month then just make a label to cover the screen, add the text you want, and then use If(Day(Today()) >7 And Day(Today()) < 15, true, false) If that is on the visable property then it will only show up on the 8th throught the 14th for one week. You could swap the true and false and make it be it be invisible for that week instead if you wanted etc.

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This looks like it would work at first glance! Could I create some type of date picker function on the admin screen and have the visible property look at the selected dates on the admin screen? Or maybe it is just a text field they type "open" or "closed" and the label visible property looks at that? Thanks for the quick help!!

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So are you trying to make it where the selected dates on the admin screen for say start and end are the dates where the app opens for users and then closes again. So app is availiable from start date to end date and both of those are set on the admin page? For that you would for sure need to store those values in a SP list or something. That is only needed b/c the app will have to fetch that data after it is closed then reopened.

// here is an example of how to pull that data from SP back to the app when it loads.
AdminScreen.OnVisible -> UpdateContext({SPListData: LookUp(YourListName, ID = 1)})
StartDatePicker.DefaultDate -> SPListData.StartDate
EndDatePicker.DefaultDate -> SPListData.EndDate

// Now if the admin wants to change those you will have to patch to that item again to save the changes:
Patch(SPListData, LookUp(SPListData, ID =1), {StartDate: DatePickerStart.SelectedDate, EndDate: DatePickerEnd.SelectedDate})

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