How to get the name of active screen

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Posted on 6 Mar 2019 10:49:58 by winwell

I want to show the active screen name in a label.

Is there a way to get the name of the active screen? I can't see any obvious 'non manual' way to do it.

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ITCareNV 574 on 06 Mar 2019 at 12:23:45

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

Hi @winwell

I don't know of any pre built function that would do that but you could try this out: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Navigate-to-a-screen-by-it-s-name/m-p/2454#M1352

Let me know if that helped you or not.

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winwell 30 on 06 Mar 2019 at 12:58:40

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

Thanks but that doesn't really do what I wanted and after reading that post, looks like the functionality doesn't exist anyway. I'll just have to enter the screen name manually. Thanks anyway.

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ITCareNV 574 on 06 Mar 2019 at 13:14:01

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

You can always submit the idea here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas/status-key/Started

I would vote for it
Alternatively, in addition to your case, this might help you: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/Navigate-to-a-screen-by-name/idi-p/3680

Good luck!

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v-yuxima-msft on 07 Mar 2019 at 08:40:06

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

Hi @winwell ,

What do you mean get the active way of the screen?

Do you mean you have many screens and the label shows the screen which is used?

I am afraid there is no the relate function to show the active screen in PowerApps currently, if

you would like this feature to be added in PowerApps, please submit an idea to PowerApps Ideas Forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

Best Regards.

Yumia

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v-yuxima-msft on 20 Mar 2019 at 12:39:29

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

Hi @winwell @dimi ,

Thanks for your posts and votes.

Best Regards.

Yumia

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Emjee 65 on 20 Apr 2019 at 03:47:28

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

App.ActiveScreen.Name
Reference

This is great for building navigation components:
1. App Settings > Advanced Settings > Experimental Features > Components > On
2. In the Tree view, select the Components tab.
3. Press New component and rename it. Try this naming style: cmpTitleBar
4. Change your component size. Try a height of 40 or 50.
5. Press New custom property and name it. Try this for Name: inpTitleBar
6. With Property type: Input and Data type: Text, complete the dialog by pressing Save.
7. Now that your component is listening for that input, Insert a Label.
8. Connect by changing the label's Text property from "Text" to cmpTitleBar.inpTitleBar.
9. Lastly, change the component's input (inpTitleBar) to App.ActiveScreen.Name as a default value.
10. Name a screen and Insert Component to see the result.
What else can you add to your navigation component?

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Rafyelzz 3 on 22 Feb 2020 at 19:38:06

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

THIS is the solution

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AndreSchlender 34 on 31 May 2020 at 07:51:40

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

The example with using a "Component" is nice and useful in many ways. Before components I have simply set a variable (varScreenTitle) and had a label in the header referencing the variable. In the App OnLoad event I set the variable to for my start up screen. In most cases the user will have to click a button or perform an action to navigate to a different screen. At this points you then reset the variable to a different name that matches the new screen prior to calling Navigate(). Simple but worked for me.

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Bakertc384 16 on 30 Sep 2022 at 10:58:19

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

I have an issues with app.activescreen,

i have a custom menu component where a component is visible based on what screen they are one. the customer component is side hamburger menu and is the same on every screen.
there is a collection that hold all the menu data,
Table(
{
MenuLabel: "Home",
MenuIcon: Icon.Home,
MenuID:1,
ScreenNav: 'Home Page'

when i enter say.... ThisItem.ScreenNav = app.activescreen.name in the visible property of the component

it show red line under. seems like app.active screen is no longer working,

any ideas ?

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cmanning 228 on 23 Dec 2022 at 16:46:45

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Re: How to get the name of active screen

@Bakertc384 - I am also interested if there has been a solution or work-around for this.

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