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A slightly odd question but can you set the button to have a time delay? say 3 seconds after the click it carries out the function?

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cdwhite 1,067 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You can do this, with timer controls.

in the OnSelect of your button, you’d need to set a variable:

set(gvTimer, false);set(gvTimer, true)

add gvTimer to the Start property of a timer control. set the duration of the timer to be 3000 - which is 3 seconds.

you can then add some code to the OnTimerEnd property for it to run once the timer has been triggered and run

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Add a timer to the app, make it invisible, and set it to run for 3 seconds. Set the onSelect of the Button to start the timer. Set the OnTimerEnd of the timer to do what you want the button to do after 3 seconds.

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Rajkumar_M 3,741 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Insert a Timer control on the screen and make invisible.
Set the Duration property of the Timer control to 3000 milliseconds (3 seconds).
Set the Start property of the Timer control to a Boolean variable, say varStartTimer.
On the OnSelect property of the button, set the varStartTimer variable to true.
Add the function that you want to execute after the delay to the OnTimerEnd property of the Timer control.

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jsmith87 297 on at

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Hi

Is there a way to add this to my current syntax in my onselct property of the button?

Clear(Data);
ForAll(
Gallery1.AllItems,
Collect(
Data,
{
Name: 'Company name',
Miles: Long.Text,
PCode:End.Text,
EM:Subtitle1.Text

}
)
)

Basically i want the button to carry out the collection 4 seconds after clicking it? I'm not great with powerapps so any help would be great

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cdwhite 1,067 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Yeah you can add that code to the OnTimerEnd property of a timer control. See the responses above for how to go about it

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jsmith87 297 on at

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Thank you, i managed to do step 1,2 and 3. Would you mind telling me how i'd add the varStartTimer to my syntax? i'm new to powerApps and struggle with expressions

Clear(Data);
ForAll(
Gallery1_1.AllItems,
Collect(
Data,
{
Name: 'Company name',
Miles: Long.Text,
PCode:End.Text,
EM:Subtitle1.Text

}
)
)

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cdwhite 1,067 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You would set your VarStartTimer in the OnSelect of your button. You’d then need to add varStartTimer to the ‘Start’ property of your timer control.

this will enable the button to talk to the timer, to provide the delay that you’re after.

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