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How would I make a persistent collection in web browser?

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Posted on by G0Springs 134

As with many people I was surprised to find that the information in collections are not permanent and entries disappear after you close the app.

 

The first solution I found was suggesting to try the SaveData and LoadData functions to make the collection persistent, but upon applying these I received the error message: "There was a problem saving your data. Data cannot be saved when running in a web browser".

 

Could I ask advice with how to make the information in this collection persistent whilst still creating and using the app in the web browser. May I also ask the most efficient way to transfer the information of a collection into a dataverse.

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    BCLS776 8,994 Moderator on at

    You are correct - collections are not permanent and offline capabilities are not fully supported for browsers. You have a couple of options:

    1. Save your data to a backend, such as a SharePoint List for later retrieval
    2. It is at the Experimental rollout stage right now, but there is a way to enable offline data saving for web browsers. See File-Settings for your app:

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    Hope that helps,

    Bryan

     

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