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Hello everyone,
I've read on forum and around that there should be an OnStart() property or such, but I don't seem to have it in my environment?
If anybody knows anything helpful, I'd be very grateful!
Thanks in advance.
- Nikola
@NidjoJohnny22
It has been deprecated in favor of Startscreen. See the discussion here. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/How-do-I-properly-use-StartScreen/td-p/1360827#:~:text=1%20App.OnStart%20to%20collect%20the%20data%20%28Collect%2C%20Lookup%2C,or%20collections%20from%20App.OnStart%20since%20both%20are%20independent For now, you can reactivate it in the settings but it will be going away.
There is a great new option also in settings called Named Formulas to replace using the Set() function in OnStart.
thank you, @Drrickryp !
Do you maybe have knowledge on how to find possibility in PowerApps to create a variable with named object data on that same StartScreen... ?
like var names = { management = {"Nikola": "nikola.nikola@mail.com"}, secondNamedObjectWithinObjectData = {Second : "Two"} }
or similar data structure and how to access the data within? with which functions?
Right now I'm using the Lists for all data and this could be much faster for low-record-level and static data.
Do a search for PowerApps Named Formula. I think it is exactly what you need. You can activate it in the Settings under experimental features.
great! thank you
hi @Drrickryp , this Named Formula is in experimental phase, I'm not so sure about it - should I use it for "production" apps? In case something goes wrong, it might be a bad idea later? what is your opinion about it?
Hello, I would avoid the deprecated features, as I don't have some solid replacement for it
The official position on experimental features is not to use them in production apps.
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