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Canvas App activates custom connector's API call directly from Formula Bar

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Posted on 4 Apr 2024 06:50:21 by 15

Hello,

Last two months (Feb-March 24) were full of serious bugs in the Power Platform.

Currently I have a very strange issue with a custom connector function in the Canvas App.
There is a button supposed to run an API call via custom connector when pressed. 

The problem is that it runs the function also when I select the Formula Bar in Edit Mode.
App is integrated with DAX live, prelive and dev environments and you can imagine the scale of that problem if app runs API calls at the time it's not supposed to. You can see in the image below, there is a button "Jah" that has OnSelect function. There is a custom connector line daxapi.GETCarTransport() that activates when I press into formula bar window!

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Previous cases in Feb-March:
1) I could not open Canvas apps in Edit Mode - workaround recommended to use Firefox or Chrome/Edge Private Mode. Finally MS found a reason that it was related to enabling Power Fx Formula Bar in the apps.

2) Flow connections suddenly dissapeared from the apps by its own. Apps were broken in Edit Mode, needed to manually re-add Flows to the app. Also one strange thing was that one flow which was renamed in Power Automate long time ago, has automatically changed name in the Canvas function "NewName.Run()" to "OldName.Run()". MS is still investigating that issue.

What I want to say that I'm running a business having many clients using the apps developed by us. We receive serious complaints from the clients when such things happen and MS śupport is endlessly investigating issues. When one is solved, another happens.

Does someone have also such experience or similar symptoms in the apps?

Rgds,
Denis

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  • mmbr1606 Profile Picture
    13,722 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 04 Apr 2024 at 07:41:52
    Re: Canvas App activates custom connector's API call directly from Formula Bar

    Hey again

     

    Until now i have not really seen a post here what the root cause for this is only saw that reverting back can help 🤷🏼‍♂️

     

    And yes i agree on  some other points u mentioned UI/UX isn not always on point

  • datalyze Profile Picture
    15 on 04 Apr 2024 at 07:21:49
    Re: Canvas App activates custom connector's API call directly from Formula Bar

    Hi, @mmbr1606 

    Thanks for the tip! 

    Actually I would like to discuss over the root problem. You've said that this issue popped up quite long time ago.
    I don't understand why it's not fixed in new releases automatically? I've published the app two days ago and as far as I know app can change the auth version to stable one automatically. But I'm not surprised at all, it's the way MS works and still we're here because there are more other benefits and positive moments.

    The most frustrating thing is that instead of smooth development process we're dealing with continuous problem solving. End users (customers) are complaining and thinking that Power Apps developers are not competent. In the end everything reflects on the business reputation and so on.



  • mmbr1606 Profile Picture
    13,722 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 04 Apr 2024 at 07:03:47
    Re: Canvas App activates custom connector's API call directly from Formula Bar

    hey @datalyze 

     

    this issue popped up last couple of weeks here (not only for custom API but also Onselect functions).

    For most of the users it helped reverting back power apps to an older version.

     

    Let me know if my answer helped solving your issue.

    If it did please accept as solution and give it a thumbs up so we can help others in the community.



    Greetings

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