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The dreaded "getting your data" message from clicking a link

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I've developed a power apps form which is used to populate a sharepoint list.  There is also a flow connected which sends an email to someone from the list item created asking them to investigate.  The first power app works fine, data is created in sharepoint and an email is sent out to the investigator.

 

When the investigator clicks on the link, they navigate to a new power apps form which will allow them to update the record created with additional data.  The first power app form has the default type of New, the second one, called from the URL in the email is set to Edit.  It is also passed through the ID as dynamic content, so in theory the second power apps form should show the data that was newly created.  At the moment, the screen loads (the header, other images etc,) but the square for the Form is a blank rectangle with the words "Getting you data  ..."

 

Is there something that I need to have in the item field of the form on the page for this to display something? I've got the following:

LookUp('401aData', ID = Param("ID"))

As the URL of the link from the email is passing through the ID:

 

Any pointers as to what I should be looking at?

Thanks

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  • BCBuizer Profile Picture
    22,577 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @TonyH ,

     

    It seems like the LookUp function is returning a blank. Did you verify that the parameter value is valid and the user testing has access to that item?

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    27 on at

    So that's where the problem was in the end.  The ID being passed through the hypertext was part of a string and so it needed to be converted into a number. So I used this in the end:

     

    LookUp([@'401aData'], ID=Value(varID))

     

     

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