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Hi everyone!
I have an app with 10 screens. How can I refresh all the screens together? For example, if I am on screen 3, after 1 minute my screen refreshes, but if another user is on screen 5, his screen refreshes after the same time without insert a timer with a refresh on each screen. Is this possible?
Thank you.
@RaulSG
Yes this can be done.
Take a look over my video specifically on the subject of screen resets.
I hope this is helpful for you.
Hello @RandyHayes
My question was not about how to reset the controls of a screen but about refreshing the data of the screens.Thanks anyway.
Depending on the "data" this can be accomplished a few ways.
Additionally, there is limited benefit to 'updating' the data on a screen that the user is not currently interacting with. This adds additional overhead to the app, additional data calls, and may lead to a poorer overall performance. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
Apologies for misunderstanding.
Data refreshes is based on refreshing the datasource.
The first time you use a datasource in your app, it gathers the values of the datasource at that point in time. It never refreshes it unless you issue a Refresh(dataSource).
It will not automatically refresh. You must initiate the refresh either via a Timer (if you want to refresh on a schedule) or on-demand through any action - like an Icon or Button action or OnVisible, OnHidden of a screen.
Thank you both for replying @GarethPrisk @RandyHayes The application can be accessed by more than one user at a time to manage the same record and I want anyone who has access to it see the last saved information. User 1 can have the application open while user 2 makes a change to a field in the same record. Once the change is made, user 1 would have to see the new data, as would user 2.
This is going to create a lot of refreshing of data. If you are having both (or multiple) users updating the exact same record at the same time, you're also going to run into Conflict errors when trying to store the record.
Only one at a time changes the record but the other one, have to see the changes too.
So you will need to perform Refresh(datasource) often in your app then to get the app to recognize new data changes.
There is not other way to get PowerApps to recognize new changes.
Ok, thank you @RandyHayes for your comments.
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