How can we prevent users from closing the window while data is being written?

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Often, after clicking the "Submit" button, Power Apps takes a few seconds to write data to the SharePoint list, but many employees immediately choose to return or close the window after clicking "Submit," resulting in data not being successfully saved. Is there a way to optimize this? For example, displaying a "loading" page so that other operations can only be performed after the data has been successfully written?

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WarrenBelz 154,797 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @CW-23070243-0,

If you are referring to them closing the active browser tag, unfortunately there is nothing you can do to stop this. You could certainly stop them changing screens by setting a Variable before you submit to true and then back to false again after the submission and make the return button disabled when the Variable was true.

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You can use a spinner control with a message like, 'Processing your request. Please don’t close the page until the operation is complete.' This helps reassure users while the operation is running. You can also set up the 'ConfirmExit' and 'ConfirmExitMessage' properties to warn users if they try to close the tab while the process is still underway. If this issue continues to be a problem, you might want to use an instant flow in Power Automate instead of relying on a PowerApps formula. With Power Automate, the operation runs independently, so it won’t be interrupted. Just make sure to handle any errors in advance. Otherwise, if a user navigates away, they won’t see any error messages or responses. If you can't control these errors by disabling the submit button or showing notifications in the app then you might consider logging errors or sending email notifications to keep users informed.

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