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I am rolling out a couple of PowerApps across the business. One has Excel as a data source and the other is Sharepoint.

Currently I am sending an email for the PowerApp and then all the data sources - I open up the data sources from the email and then close them down and delete the email. The PowerApp itself is opened and Bookmarked to favorites on their browsers.

Question is, is there a quicker way of getting PowerApps running on their PC's without me having to send, open and delete the data files. If I don't grant them access then I get an error message. A lot of the computer users are not great on computers and some of the data could be sensitive hence why I don't want them trying to set it up themselves and also knowing they have access to the data at the backend.

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StretchFredrik 3,395 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Maybe the best way is to set up all the users that are supposed to have access in a group and then share both the datasource and PowerApp with the group instead?

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Yes that is a possibility - It's just time consuming this way as I have to literally open every email then delete it.

I will look in to grouping.

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@StretchFredrik how would I go about doing this?

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@russelln1 ,

If you use SharePoint, you can set up a Custom Permission level based on Contribute, but with View Applicaiton Pages unselected - that way they cannot browse and SharePoint page, even if they have access to it from Data read/write in Power Apps.

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Hi @russelln1 ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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Hi @WarrenBelz

Thanks for the message, sorry for the delay coming back to you.

What I'm more after is being able to get this on to people's computer without having to do it individually - is there a way of doing it as currently I'm sharing the data sources via email to each person then going on to their PC's open the emails to then close them to allow them access. Just seems long winded.

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WarrenBelz 153,084 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @russelln1 ,

Sharing is all about security of data and with any URL, you have to bookmark it to access again in the future. I am not sure what it is you expect to be less complex.

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It's not complex just time consuming. What I want is to be able to share without having to go to each computer open the email for each data source, open the link, close the link close the email.... etc etc. - As mentioned perhaps best to set a group up and then let people access from the group share. I'm not sure how to do this but I'm sure I'll figure it out for next time.

Doesn't matter for this one as I have completed this task.

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