Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

Assume that you are a Power Apps maker and you have built an app and shared it with users. A few users have reported issues, and you would like to know the following from the users to troubleshoot:

• Browser
• Operating System (OS)
• Session ID
• Tenant ID

So what’s the best way to get those details. The solutions is by using a Host object in Power Apps.

What and how to use the Host object:

• The Host object in Power Apps provides information about the current host running the app.
• The host object is currently only available in custom pages and canvas apps.
• To access the Host object, expand the App object at the top of the Tree view pane and then select it.

Host object properties:

BrowserUserAgent:

• The text property BrowserUserAgent contains the complete user agent string that the browser uses to identify itself when running the app.
• For example, a browser user agent string might be:
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)
  • AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)
  • Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/109.0.1518.78`

OSType:

• The OSType property provides the name of the operating system where the app is running.
• Examples : Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux

SessionID:

• The SessionID property returns the GUID that identifies the current session.

TenantID:

• The TenantID property provides the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that specifies the Azure Active Directory (AAD) tenant associated with the presently authenticated user.

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