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Hi-

I know how to determine in an app is a "Mobile" or a "Desktop" by means of using LAT & LONG to fairly accurately determine the device.

However, we do like using the WINDOWS DESKTOP APP to use as our portal. After MSFT changed its portal last year, I was forced to update exit buttons to point to our intranet and reference the link to the appID of the powerapp.

My question is:

How can I determine if the user is on a web client, or an DESKTOP app client?

That answer will tell me how to write my if statement when the user press X to exit the app. Now, one app, opens new intranet web tabs each time the desktop client user presses X, but the DESKTOP client remains open.

These particular apps do not use any FLOWS.

I am not a fan of telling the user to hit the WAFFLE, APP Commands, and press Exit if I can take care of all of this for them..

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checking in to see if anyone has a way to overcome my problem...Thanks

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HI all, it came to me today, and thought it may be helpful for anyone using the desktop and web clients in their environment:
The EXIT() function needs to behave differently for DESKTOP or web versions. Exit will not work for me, as I DO NOT want my users going back and seeing a list of all possible apps from the web version that may distract them...

Basically, if clicked from a URL on the intranet, set variable on Appstartup to "Web Version", else,
"Desktop Version" Deep Linking is the solution for my use case.

Here are the steps:

On App Startup:
If(
Param("DeepLink") = "WebStart",
Set(varCLientType,"Web Version"),
Set(varCLientType,"Desktop Version")
)
;
Locate App Web Link for your app
goto https://make.powerapps.com/
Click the 3 dots next to your app
Click Details
Right Click WEB LINK and COPY WEB LINK
Paste to notepad or a work space in your app
Add a Parameter (see April Dunham's Video that I used)
Use this link as the launch method
on my Exit Button:

If(varCLientType="Desktop Version",
Exit(),
Launch("https://xxxxxxxxx/sites/xxxIntranet", Blank(), LaunchTarget.Replace) )

My weblink became:
https://apps.powerapps.com/play/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?tenantId=xxxxxxxxxxxxx&DeepLink=WebStart

DeepLink=WebStart

Hope that helps someone that needs to tell if it is a desktop client or web client that originated the app start

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