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Hi all, I need help and guidance on creating an auto update dashboard for my Power Apps system.

I have an order progress dashboard where users will refer it to see their current order progress. It's like you went to McDonalds and look at the screen whether your order is preparing in their kitchen or can pick it up already. Issue here is the dashboard is not auto update. I have to refresh the dashboard manually every single time progress is updated by admins. Fyi, I created four separated containers and inside, I have a gallery to display the contents for each progress.

At each gallery's Items' property, I have this configured:

 Filter('Order Summary', OrderStatus.Value = "Order Received")

The code is same for each progress. How to enable the auto update for the dashboard created? Do I need to use Automate Flow or not?

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iAm_ManCat 18,256 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Add a timer to your App on that screen - have the timer refresh the datasource which will update your items. Here are some basic settings to get you started:

Timer1.Repeat=true

Timer1.Autostart=true

Timer1.OnTimerEnd=

Refresh('Order Summary')

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Hi @iAm_ManCat , thank you for responding.
It works! Thank you, appreciate your help so much!

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Excellent, glad I could help!

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Hi @iAm_ManCat ,
I would like to ask, what is the recommended duration time to have auto update on the dashboard without having any issue?

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It depends! Too many refreshes in a short time will likely cause issues due to the number of calls being made to the system. What do you currently have it set to?

How often do the admins usually update the items?

I would probably start with the highest number you think is reasonable and then tweak that based on feedback.

So maybe start with one hour if that's reasonable? Which you would represent on a timer as duration of:

1000*60*60

This is:

1000 (1 second in milliseconds) * 60 (1 minute in seconds) * 60 (number of minutes)

If you need to tweak it, then change the number of minutes you are multiplying it by, so for example if we want it to run every 15 minutes:

1000*60*15

1000 (1 second in milliseconds) * 60 (1 minute in seconds) * 15 (number of minutes)

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