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Hi. I have an application that is only intended to be used by one group of employees (but there are hundreds of such employees).

In practical terms, it didn't make sense to individually grant access to each of those employees, given the number, so I granted access to everybody in the organisation.

However, only the specific intended employees have access to the underlying data sources (SharePoint Lists).

Is there a smart way within Power Apps itself to validate whether the user has access to those underlying data sources and, if they don't, give them a warning and then force the application to close?

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Currently no. However if there is a specific department/unit or anything which links that group of employees you can use a LookUp function to check if they meet a criteria using their account.

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OK - thank you. I can't find a LookUp value that I could use for this.

Actually, what might work is to use OnError and then check what the error is. Most of the time, I'd expect the result to be: FirstError.Message = "Error when trying to retrieve data from the network"

So I might rely on that.

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No problem, make sure to mark your response as the solution to close this thread.

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