Can you receive notifications on powerapps or emails?

[shaneOZ]

Hi, 

Im creating a new app where i would like the user to be notified if i change something or add a calander item. I read that powerapps cannot recieve emails? is that correct? and can it recieve notifications?

How would i alert the user to a job being added or a new calander item?

Thankyou

[cwebb365 · Accepted solution]

Check out push notifications: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/add-notifications

Not sure on exact scenario here but you can use these to send notifications with parameters to launch the app into the notification. Flow usually feeds the notification.

[shaneOZ]

Perfect i just needed someway of alerting them, id prefer email. However it looks unavailable in powerapps at the moment

[cwebb365]

You can email from the app but not while it’s inactive. However the same approach can be used with flow. Have flow have a trigger or a repeat scheduled run to do checked then send email using an email task having a link in the email that starts the app using URL parameters to navigate and start you in a screen with that data.