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Saving and Restoring Canvas App State Across Sessions

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Posted on 21 Apr 2025 14:48:10 by CU21041441-0 4
How can I persist a user's selections (like dropdowns, checkboxes, etc.) and restore them on re-opening the app?
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    vipuljain03 497 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 21 Apr 2025 at 20:15:26
    Saving and Restoring Canvas App State Across Sessions
    Use the SaveData() and LoadData() functions:
    SaveData(colUserSelections, "UserSessionData")
    On App Start: LoadData(colUserSelections, "UserSessionData", true)
     
    Set default values of controls based on this collection.
     
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    Jon Unzueta 1,176 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 21 Apr 2025 at 15:50:03
    Saving and Restoring Canvas App State Across Sessions
    Hi @CU21041441-0
    You can collect the user selections and save them in a table. When you reopen the app in the "Default" options of each component you select what you have in the table
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    stampcoin 3,888 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 21 Apr 2025 at 15:47:18
    Saving and Restoring Canvas App State Across Sessions
    To make it work, you could define a table in dataverse to store the pernalization settings.
    it links to users, and you can add patch event for example once the end user submit data.
    Initialize the settings in App.OnStart.
     

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