Rajeev Pentyala – Microsoft Power Platform

In the latest Canvas App updates, following key announcement has been made on App’s ‘OnStart’ property.

• Using the Navigate function in the OnStart property has been retired. (Refer below screen as App throws warning if you have Navigate function on OnStart)
• Existing apps will continue to work. For a limited time, you can still enable it in the app settings (available under Retired).
• However, using Navigate in this manner can lead to app load delays.
• Use the new StartScreen property instead, to calculate the first screen displayed.

StartScreen:

• App.StartScreen: a new declarative alternative to Navigate in App.OnStart.
• The StartScreen property determines which screen will be displayed first.
• By default, this property will be empty, and the first screen in the Studio Tree view is shown first.

• Following is an example, to Navigate to ‘Screen2’ based on a Condition.
  • If(User().Email=”RajeevPentyala@expnov21.onmicrosoft.com”,Screen2,Screen1)
  • If you notice, no ‘Navigate’ function is used in above example.

• If StartScreen returns an error, the first screen in the Studio Tree view will be shown as if StartScreen hadn’t been set.
• Global variables and collections, including those created in OnStart, are not available in StartScreen.

Refer Docs for more info.

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