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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hello,

 

My form will be mainly used offline and i want to ensure my users can properly save their work so they can submit it online. 

 

How can i implement an autosave on PowerApps whenever there are changes  that can display a "last saved 00:00:00"

 

the form writes back to SP through a data source 

 

Please let me know if you have any questions

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    Pstork1 69,129 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Add a timer control on the app, set it for the save interval you want and then have it execute the same logic as your save button does when the timer expires.

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    v-yutliu-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous ,

    Do you want to load data that entered offline?

    I suggest you use the funtion of savedata and loaddata.

    When user is offline, they use SaveData( Collection, Name ) to save the data they have entered.

    When user is online, they use LoadData( Collection, Name [, IgnoreNonexistentFile ]) to load the data that they saved before.

    Here's doc about it for your reference:

    https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/savedata-and-loaddata-unleashed/

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-savedata-loaddata

     

    Best regards,

    Community Support Team _ Phoebe Liu

  • svijay_001 Profile Picture
    svijay_001 Microsoft Employee on at

    Alternatively, you can have a  perform patch or save option on the control OnChange event. 

     

    Everytime somebody goes ahead and types the items gets saved/updated. 

     

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