Send a link with id to search text box in app

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Is it possible to send a link with an id via Outlook.

The receiver click on the link

App is opening with the search text field predefined with the id from the mail ?

Any other solutions on how to solve this ?

Thank you for your responses.

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JasonZF 572 on at

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Yes, you could do this with the Param() function. Grab the link to the app as you normally would, but then add something like this to the end of the URL:

&ID=1234

You would be generating this URL dynamically inside the app by adding the static app URL along with a provided ID number. Then for the default property of your text field, you could have something like this:

If(!IsBlank(Param("ID")),Param("ID"))

This checks to see if the ID parameter provided in the URL is not blank. If so, then it uses that parameter as the default. If you need to launch to a specific screen, you can do that to via the app's StartScreen property.
Note: URL Parameters are always text, even if you supply numbers only or a true/false value. More info here: Launch and Param functions in Power Apps - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn

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Thank you @JasonWS The solution got to be more simpler than expected. In the start screen gallery on the icon that was clicked onscreen was set to

Set(varRecord , ThisItem);Navigate(TagScreen)

Picked the team and then member. In the button onselect outlook connector, the end of url was set to

&MessageID="&varRecord.Id

I created a hidden text field named txtMessageID_hidden and text field was set to

Param("MessageID")

In the search field the default value was set to

txtMessageID_hidden.Text

When user receives an email and clicks on the url, the app opens in browser and the search field contains MessageID prefilled. The search box then filters on just the one MessageID since MessageID is unique.

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