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I am building a basic canvas app in which the user can click on a link to an external website. This will be hosted for PCs so I am not too fussed with how a phone interacts with it.

For ease of use, I would like the user to be able to open this window in full screen with the Launch function. Whilst I am aware of the ability to open a new window, can anyone advise of a way that it would open that window in full screen?
Would it be possible to execute the "chrome.exe --start-fullscreen" command for instance?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @Anonymous,

Do you want to launch a URL from Power Apps and open a new window in Chrome with full screen?

Could you please share a bit more about your scenario?

Actually, as I know that our Edge browser does have a feature of opening Edge in full screen without any menus, you can use Kiosk Mode.

You can add --kiosk flag to enable kiosk mode in Edge, the sample code is like below:

start msedge taskkill /F /IM msedge.exe %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c "start msedge.exe --kiosk --disable-extensions --new-window --start-fullscreen --disable-popup-blocking https://apps.powerapps.com/play/{app_link}"

In addition, you could consider adding a rectangle with the size of the full screen (1366 wide) to each screen.

o Adjust the width of the rectangle to 1366px and adjust the color to the background color of your app.

o Assuming your app is landscape, set the Screen Size + Orientation settings

16:9 (Default)

Scale to Fit On

Lock Aspect Ratio to off

Lock Orientation to on.

Please check if the above could help you at some degree.

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Hi Qi,

This isn't quite what I am going for. Basically the app is a button that is embedded on a SharePoint page that links to an external site. It then uses the patch function to capture data on who clicked the button and when for analytics purposes.

Basically, I was just wanting to see if upon clicking the button on the site, it could open the external site in full screen/kiosk mode like you said without the user having to input anything. The app itself doesn't need to go full screen, just whichever window pops-up when the button is clicked.

I know this is probably unlikely as it may require control of someone elses console but thought it worth trying!
Thanks,
Joe

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