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How to find URL from where user clicked link to app?

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Posted on 3 Nov 2022 19:14:02 by Clifferton

I'd like to be able to find the URL of the page that sent a person to my app. Seems like what I'm trying to do is access the Referer header so that I can pass the URL into my app as a variable and auto-populate one of the form fields. I can't seem to find information about how to get access to the Referer header from inside my app.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

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JanChlebek 9 on 09 Nov 2022 at 23:49:49

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Re: How to find URL from where user clicked link to app?

Param() is the function you're looking for.

Assuming Power App URL will look like:
https://web.powerapps.com/apps/...?MyParam=Test
Param("MyParam") will return 'Test' as a value

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-param
Clifferton 94 on 09 Nov 2022 at 22:32:28

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Re: How to find URL from where user clicked link to app?

Supposing I can have each url be parameterized at the source, how do I grab that parameter and put it into a variable in the Form?
Clifferton 94 on 09 Nov 2022 at 16:26:31

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Re: How to find URL from where user clicked link to app?

It's a publishing platform. We submit a template that acts as a frame around the content. Scanned books and other library content. I'll see if the publisher has a way to modify the link on each page, but I think that's going to be a non-option
Akser 1,546 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 04 Nov 2022 at 18:56:22

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Re: How to find URL from where user clicked link to app?

Hi @Clifferton,

I'm assuming the apps has users from various departments / locations (?) and each have their own site (?) with a link to your app (?). Simply ask them to include a parameter in their links (&Referer=Marketing) and use that piece of info to auto-populate your fields maybe? (that's a looot of assumptions, sorry)