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My Posts Keep Disappearing - Repost - How to allow all users to run powerapp and write to SharePoint List but not allow them to see ALL list data

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I've created a powerapp canvas form app from a SharePoint list that each Employee must fill out.  The only way I could get it to work was to share the app to all our internal users (from an AD group) as well as setting the permissions on the SharePoint list to ReadWrite.  

 

However, building apps for employees to run should not then give them access to all the data, or at least, not to the other EMployee's answers.  I've already contacted O365 support about the permissions, but we can't hide the list, the content type or the settings gear to prevent them from finding this list and seeing all of the data.

 

Is there not a way to design an app to use a generic account to post the data into the destination list/table (this is how most other applications work with SQL etc).  If it did that, the app would use this account to write the data and the user themselves would not have access to the data ie the SharePoint list.

 

Anyone have any idea if PowerApps can so this?  If not, it's really leaving a lot of data out there that people shouldn't see.

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  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    76,297 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @luvsql 

    Yes, this is the case with PowerApps datasources (as well as most all applications or apps) if people need to add or edit data, they need to be able to access it.

    SharePoint does not have Item level permissions the same way as a database would.  So, things get tricky.

    You can take a look at this article on how you can break the inheritance of permissions on list items and gain some sense of permission.

     

    I hope this is helpful for you.

  • luvsql Profile Picture
    67 on at

    I currently have an existing flow on this list for all new list items to send emails for any responses set to No, so would this additional flow cause any breakages?  Or I guess what I could do is add these flow steps to my existing flow after the emails are sent.  Will check it out.

  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    76,297 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @luvsql 

    I don't believe, based on your explanation of the other flow, that it would impact it.  However, yes, you could merge the two together as well if it makes more sense.

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