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How to build a single canvas power app with role based navigation via dataverse to route users to their specific screens. By using navigation menus based on user roles to switch between screens ,ensuring app is tailored to each user group.

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Use a table in Dataverse that records the user's email and the screen they should be directed to. Then have a splash screen as the starting spot which will use their email to retrieve the name of the screen they should navigate to. Then use a Switch command to send them to that screen. You could do the same thing with groups, but would need to add a step to use their email address to check their group membership.

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Is it really secure to restrict screen access in the app based on role based navigation to route users to their specific screens?

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Security that is maintained inside the application by restricting access to certain screens is never really true security. For true security you need to secure the data at the data source. Otherwise a user can create their own application to access the data and bypass the application level security in the app.

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Thanks for your valuable inputs.

could you please share few tips like how to maintain security at the database level even though if i restrict access to specific screens?

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What is possible for security within the database is dependent on which data source you decide to use. Dataverse has more flexible security settings than SharePoint. Whatever database you are using the key is to give the user the permissions they need to access the database records that they need and no more.

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