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Gallery - loading progress bar and auto refresh (CDS connector & Dynamics 365)

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Is it possible to display a loading/progress bar on a gallery while records for that gallery are being created via PowerAutomate and then have it automatically disappear and auto-refresh when the records are created?

Please note, I am using the CDS connector working with Dynamics 365 entities

Scenario example:

On Screen 1 - the user creates 'Record A' and on submission the navigation moves the user to Screen 2
The creation of 'Record A' has triggered a PowerAutomate (Flow) to create child records 'Record B 1, 2,...,n'
On Screen 2, there is an EditForm which displays fields from 'Record A' and a Gallery to display all the child 'Record B's'
Because the child records in the gallery are being created in the background and aren't created instantly, I would like to show a progress bar or loading spinner that remains there until the child records have been created.
Once the child records have been created, the gallery auto-refreshes and displays the items rather than the progress bar/loading spinner. Is this possible?

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Hi @binkster ,

Please check steps:
1. In the App, first to add a loading GIF into Media, then add the Gif above the Gallery, set its Visible property to 'VarVisible'
2. Set the following code to Onselect property of button.

Set(VarVisible,true);Flow.Run();Refresh('SP list');Set(VarVisible,false)

3. Set DisplayMode of Gallery:

If(VarVisible,Disabled,DisplayMode.Edit)

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I think that you should reconsider your approach in order to solve this situation, like this:

Re-create the PowerAutomate flow with a trigger from PowerApps (and send the Record1 data as parameter via JSON). Please see this topic to understand how.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Passing-the-PowerApps-Collection-to-MS-Flow/m-p/299601#M86216

Inside this flow you can write to CDS - Record A, and also its child records 'Record B 1, 2,...,n'.

At the end, respond from PowerAutomate to PowerApps with one parameter that confirm that the flow is finished.

The flow should be triggered from PowerApps app with a code like this Set(flowFinished,flowToUpdateData.RUN(RecordA))

In Screen 2 you will need a Timer with OnTimerEnd property set to check the value of flowFinished and a full-screen label with its Visible property set up with the result of previous timer check and Text property something like "Loading ...".

Hope it help my idea !

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