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Navigate() from an embedded canvas app: The specified property is not accessible in this context

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I want to embed a canvas app on a main form of a model driven Power App . The app has buttons which enable or disable depending the presence of related records.

So say I want to create a new related record and navigate to the relevant main form, so that it is ready to be completed by the user.

Looks to me like I am hitting a limitation - If a add the same navigate button to a Custom Page in the same model driven app , I don't get the error. I have tried all the tables added as a datasource to canvas app and all give the same error.

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ivan_apps 2,189 Moderator on at

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You could try a Launch() function and see if that works. You would have to get your environment URL passed in and it would open a new tab but maybe thats sufficient.

I assume theres a special reason you aren’t using the MDA subgrids, as that function is built-in & customizable using the Ribbon Workbench.

An alternative is to replace the entire form with a Custom Page, Scott Durow has a how-to video here: https://youtu.be/99uU5gGN15w?si=Pmda0CUQS7gPFV83

you can replace the form with a custom page and then use the Navigate(Defaults()) method.

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use Lauch() instead of navigate for canvas app, you will be able to create the record and open into a new tab, and will not lose the context of the app.

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Sorry for the delay but all my previous attempts to reply were blocked, so I am trying FireFox instead of Edge.

Anyway, back to your suggestion: I get this error

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Ivan

Great suggestion and useful resource but my client wanted an embedded app on the main form, and not a custom page which I have built for them for another requirement

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