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I created a PowerApp Component to search and resolve addresses.

I want to check if the current user has write permissions on the fields bound to the parameters of the component. In the case of read-only permissions the searchbox should be hidden as the address can't be updated anyway.

Is it possible to get the permissions on the fields bound to the parameters?

In practice the control would be mostly bound to CDS, so I could check permissions directly on CDS, but in theory the bound source could also be a SharePoint list or something else. The framework should provide a way to check the access to the bound datasource agnostic of the datasource.

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Greg Hurlman (MSFT) Microsoft Employee on at

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You can check the security metadata on a parameter by calling either of these APIs:

context.parameters.parameterName.security.readable

context.parameters.parameterName.security.editable

These both return boolean values at runtime.

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Thanks. This was exactly what I was looking for, but couldn’t find in the docs.

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Greg Hurlman (MSFT) Microsoft Employee on at

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Yeah, I noticed that too -- I'll make sure we get the docs for parameters improved.

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