How to track user logout time in PowerApps Canvas App?

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How to track user logout time in PowerApps Canvas App without adding logout button.

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WarrenBelz 153,073 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@nsmarathe ,

If the user simply closes the browser tab (which I assume will be a lot of the time), there is no way of doing this - enforcing logout by a button / icon is the only way.

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Hi @nsmarathe ,

Having a logout button will help.
1. When all starts, then you can initiate a timer and when user click on logout, then you can track the start & logout time

Let me know if this helps
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Do you have a reson that you or your users dont want to have to use a button? Maybe there is another outside of the box way to accomplish what you want.

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@Anonymous ,

You do not need a timer - if you are writing a record to an audit file, you will have the Created date and time.

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I cannot force users to click on logout button. Users can close the browser directly. So need some solution on it.

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The screen property OnHidden is triggered when closed, for single screen apps it would be as simple as:
Patch('Tracker', {timeLeft: Now()})
For multi-screen apps you could either make a session ID and update the session's timeLeft every time the screen changes or:
1. All navigation buttons set a 'leaving' variable to false
2. All screens OnView change this variable to true
Then if a user closes the powerapp, leaving will be true, as they are not navigating to a new page
If(leaving = true,Patch('Tracker', {timeLeft: Now()}))

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@Anonymous ,

That was buggy last time I looked at it (some time ago however) - a bit of testing - it seems to work OK

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Is the OnHidden trigger unreliable?

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