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I have an app which has many pages. I want to navigate to a page for which I get value from Microsoft List. How to put that value into a Navigate function? Let's say I have a label which name is LabelNavigation and the Text value is MainPage. How I can use that data to make a working navigation. Navigate(LabelNavigation.Text) does not obviously work...

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WarrenBelz 156,576 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Tuomas ,

You cannot refer to elements such as screens dynamically, but if you had a collection (example only) run at App OnStart

ClearCollect( colScreens, {Item: "Main", ScreenName: MainScreen}, {Item: "Browse", ScreenName: BrowseScreen}, {Item: "View", ScreenName: ViewScreen} )

You could do this

With( { wScreen: Lookup( colScreens, Item = NavigationLable.Text ).ScreenName }, Navigate(wScreen) )

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Thank you for a quick answer! I still refuse to believe that so complex solution is the only answer for such a simple problem 😕
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@Tuomas ,

I can assure you it is - you simply cannot refer to these (and many other) Power Apps elements dynamically (we would have found a way before now otherwise).

The problem is that the Text "MainScreen" is a completely different value to the Screen MainScreen and are not interchangeable. Other than a few limited exceptions (of which screens are not one), you have to hard-code any reference to things like Screens, Fields, List names and Controls and their attributes, but this can be in Collections and Variables referred to such as my example.

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Hi @Tuomas ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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