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Hey,

in my gallery it shows different news entries:

I want a user to see if there is any unseen message for him. So i created these green dots , which should visualize if the user has already clicked on the right arrow button or not. This is the solution i made it with:

Solved: Hide a button in a gallery on select - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

Problem:

Every time a user refreshes the App in MS Teams, it also refreshes the formula collection behind the green dots visuality. Is it possible to exclude this from a refreshing of the app? The goal is, that every single user should see on his screen if he has ever clicked on a news entry or not.

Woudl appreciate any help!

Thanks 😄

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cha_cha 4,932 Moderator on at

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Hello @wshalex123

What is your data source for these items? Is it SharePoint, excel, or maybe dataverse?

I'm asking cause what you can do on the backend is add another column on your data to store information on whether the message has been read.
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Hey @cha_cha,

the News feed is coming from one single sharepoint list, which is being feeded by many other sources.

Good idea, but in sharepoint it's not possible and even if: i can not make these entries individually "user based"
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Hello @wshalex123

May I see the data structure of that SP list?
How many users do you have?
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Hey @cha_cha,

It are around 50 office users who access my App daily
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Hello @wshalex123

Do you think it's possible to assign a column ID on that list?

I'm thinking of using a Simple SharePoint List to solve your problem. but would need confirm first if a column ID is possible.
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hey @cha_cha

what exactly do you mean by column id? A unique key for every row? I would need to make a column for every user in the company. And manuelly delete/add one in case of em- & deployment
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Hello @wshalex123

Not really, I want to know if it's possible for each new row, can you add a unique ID? preferably an incremental integer.
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@cha_cha

Yes this should be no problem
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cha_cha 4,932 Moderator on at

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Hello @wshalex123

This is my solution for your case:
https://youtu.be/0JoZMGOpD3Y

I hope you understand what I am showing.

Here are the codes:
App OnStart:
Set(varUser,LookUp('User Logs',Title=User().Email)); If(IsBlank(varUser),Set(varUser,(Patch('User Logs',Defaults('User Logs'),{Title:User().Email,ReadNews:""})))); ClearCollect(colViewLogs,Split(varUser.ReadNews,"#"));

Circle.Fill
If(ThisItem.ID in colViewLogs, RGBA(80,80,80,1),RGBA(0,200,0,1))

When clicking the news:
If(!(ThisItem.ID in colViewLogs), Patch('User Logs', varUser,{ReadNews:Concatenate(ThisItem.ID,"#", varUser.ReadNews)}); Set(varUser,LookUp('User Logs',Title=User().Email)); ClearCollect(colViewLogs,Split(varUser.ReadNews,"#")); )

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Thanks for your solution @cha_cha. Your are amazing!