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Posted on by jzia93

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Hi,

We use the User() function in Powerapps to identify users, and then lookup on the Primary Email to get the User ID.

This is great and works well, allowing us to retrieve per-user information in our app.

Unfortunately, if a user changes their email in the Users entity, that linkage is broken. Example:

Primary email at creation firstname.lastname@company.onmicrosoft.com

Primary Email is changed in Users to firstname.lastname@company.com

However, this change is not reflected in the User() function in Powerapps - which I understand to be associated with the O365 Account.

How do I account for this? We absolutely need to tie records to the User ID as it is used in a number of LookUps and changing these is not an option.

Thank you

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v-siky-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @jzia93 ,

Could you please share some sample code and error messages about broken linkage?

As you mentioned, the User() function just returns back the current user's office365 information, it has nothing to do with User Entity.

What we can do is to create a new variable at App.OnStart and modify the domain based on the user().Email.

Please try this:

Set(VarUser, Substitute(User().Email, "company.onmicrosoft", "company"))

Hope this helps.

Sik

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Thank you, I tried a few additional workarounds:

Referencing other fields in the User entity (Windows Live ID)
Changing the email @onmicrosoft.com - I need to check if this holds for people amending other parts of their email too
There's no broken code - just missing data.

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Hi @jzia93 ,

So the above suggestion doesn't make sense?

If you can share more details about your issue, we can be more helpful to your issue.

Sik

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