You never explain where the ('Video URL') thing comes from. Please correct this as the guid is useless without that information. It's helpful in other ways, but not in using a variable for the Url.
Hello April, thank you for sharing these useful tips. I am a power user and I build apps for clients. Could you please recommend resources to keep ourselves up to date on the latest changes? Thanks in advance.
Hi Aatif, I try to make sure that I'm posting about the latest features here in my Channel but besides that there's a "new features" section of the Power Apps blog that you can monitor to keep up to date: powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/category/new-features/
Hello guys, in power apps i know we have some useful functions like navigate and launch. For example navigate is to move to other screen and launch is to direct to websites like youtube, google etc. Here my question is do we have any option to direct to any local driver folders or local shared drive folders?
Thanks for sharing April. Is there a way to both (1) record the click by the user and (2) launch the hyperlink? I want to build a list of who accesses the training material to see how many people it is reaching.
Hey Ryan - You certainly can, it's pretty simple, especially if you don't need to surface that tracking data up in the app. You can create the tracking list in the data source of your choice. Then on the OnSelect property of the click, you will do a PATCH() to submit data to that tracking list. After you do the Patch, then you would Launch the hyperlink. Hope that helps!
Hi, thanks for the nice video. I have a doubt here. We can open a new tab using Launch function but is there any way, to replace the earlier opened tab instead of opening multiple new tabs?
Thank you April for your tips and sharing. I'm facing an issue with launch for the apps embedded in SharePoint modern page. My code is - Launch("Google.com",{ q: "PowerApps"}, LaunchTarget.Replace,{}), Working in App Player, Not working from SharePoint Page. Any idea? Thanks in advance.
Hi, Can u help me ? I'am trying use this Launch('www.google.com'; {}; LaunchTarget.Replace), but does't work. If I chage the Target to New work's, and I really needs open the link in the same page
Hey Lucas - I think there's a bug that needs to be fixed with the LaunchTarget function. A little backstory - there used to be a LaunchTarget.Self operation. But they released a new "Self" function and that caused issues. So it was replaced with "LaunchTarget.Replace". But I noticed when that change happened, at least for me, it stopped actually opening in the same tab. So unfortunately I don't think there's a way around that right now until it's fixed.
Hi April, i have 2 SPO List columns Website Name (text) and URL (hyperlink). I tried using Launch in my form by adding a button in the URL datacard. What I've tried so far is OnSelect Launch(ThisItem.URL), Launch(DatacardValueX) and Launch (URL, VHGallery.Selected). all are not working, hope you can assist. thanx
That’s amazing - the ability to decompose the solution into many apps 👍🏻 thank you for sharing
One of the many reasons I'm a big fan of the launch function! Thanks for watching!
Thanks April for your tips and videos!
You're very welcome Saeed!
You never explain where the ('Video URL') thing comes from. Please correct this as the guid is useless without that information.
It's helpful in other ways, but not in using a variable for the Url.
How to Launch website within Power App itself eg. in a rectangle shape - open external website without leaving app?
Hello April, thank you for sharing these useful tips. I am a power user and I build apps for clients. Could you please recommend resources to keep ourselves up to date on the latest changes? Thanks in advance.
Hi Aatif,
I try to make sure that I'm posting about the latest features here in my Channel but besides that there's a "new features" section of the Power Apps blog that you can monitor to keep up to date: powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/category/new-features/
Hello guys, in power apps i know we have some useful functions like navigate and launch. For example navigate is to move to other screen and launch is to direct to websites like youtube, google etc. Here my question is do we have any option to direct to any local driver folders or local shared drive folders?
Thanks for sharing April. Is there a way to both (1) record the click by the user and (2) launch the hyperlink? I want to build a list of who accesses the training material to see how many people it is reaching.
Hey Ryan -
You certainly can, it's pretty simple, especially if you don't need to surface that tracking data up in the app. You can create the tracking list in the data source of your choice. Then on the OnSelect property of the click, you will do a PATCH() to submit data to that tracking list. After you do the Patch, then you would Launch the hyperlink.
Hope that helps!
Hi, thanks for the nice video. I have a doubt here. We can open a new tab using Launch function but is there any way, to replace the earlier opened tab instead of opening multiple new tabs?
Hi Prashanth - No I don't believe there is a way to do that.
Thank you April for your tips and sharing. I'm facing an issue with launch for the apps embedded in SharePoint modern page. My code is - Launch("Google.com",{ q: "PowerApps"}, LaunchTarget.Replace,{}), Working in App Player, Not working from SharePoint Page. Any idea? Thanks in advance.
Hi, Can u help me ? I'am trying use this Launch('www.google.com'; {}; LaunchTarget.Replace), but does't work. If I chage the Target to New work's, and I really needs open the link in the same page
Hey Lucas -
I think there's a bug that needs to be fixed with the LaunchTarget function. A little backstory - there used to be a LaunchTarget.Self operation. But they released a new "Self" function and that caused issues. So it was replaced with "LaunchTarget.Replace". But I noticed when that change happened, at least for me, it stopped actually opening in the same tab. So unfortunately I don't think there's a way around that right now until it's fixed.
This doesn't work when you embed PowerApps in Teams. Any suggestions on how to fix that please?
Woah! launch is my personal favourite, I use it a lot.
It's a favorite of mine too ☺
Hi April, i have 2 SPO List columns Website Name (text) and URL (hyperlink). I tried using Launch in my form by adding a button in the URL datacard. What I've tried so far is OnSelect Launch(ThisItem.URL), Launch(DatacardValueX) and Launch (URL, VHGallery.Selected). all are not working, hope you can assist. thanx
Really very helpful video, could you please share the app as well.
Glad you found it helpful! This app is a work in progress but once I get it at a good place I'll share it out.
Hi
For me LaunchTarget has only 2options, New and Replace. There is no self option, could you please help here
I think they changed it recently. Self is now Replace so use that one
in your additional resources link which opens a new tab for a powerpoint deck, are you using Launch?
Hi Ida - Yes I am just using the Launch() function for that
@@AprilDunnam thank you April, is it part of your edit form or separate label?
Nice video April, I just wanted to know that how can we launch eml in outlook
Hi Abhilash - you should be able to do that with something like this: Launch("outlook.office.com/mail")
@@AprilDunnam I have applied it but it is opening the outlook, not the specific mail
This is so good, thanks!
Thanks Eric!