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Canvas App to show status of machines using toggle buttons

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I have created a canvas app with a custom UI that has toggle buttons and labels for each toggle, displaying username and datetime when a user selects the toggle. The toggle button patches this information to a MS List.
Whenever I play the app it shows me the default view where all the toggle buttons are OFF,

for instance I have 5 machines with status ON or OFF, by default the status is OFF, when I select a toggle for machine 1 it gets turned On and the status is updated in MS list as ON, but when I close and play the app again the toggle is OFF for machine 1.
I want the app to collect the information from MS List and then show the information as and when it is opened or played.

Any leads how to achieve this.

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Bilakanti 1,226 on at

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@pujaclb You can set the default property of the toggle to the MSlist column value.
Ex: MSList.<columnname>

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Let's assume you have a list, and you are patching to it (as you've said), and I assume you will have columns for the MachineName, MachineStatus and a Username column where you store the user's email address (as display name is not a unique identifier)

Make the Default of each toggle the following, while changing the values for each to match the machine each toggle is for:

LookUp('DataSource Name', MachineName = "Machine 1").MachineStatus

The above does assume that you have one list for all machines, rather than a row for each user. If you need to also filter by user then you will need something like this (assuming you are currently storing User().Email when you patch):

LookUp('DataSource Name', MachineName = "Machine 1", UsernameColumn = User().Email ).MachineStatus

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