Stop PowerApps timeout when browser window is idle

[SGiles]

I have a requirement to show a dashboard style app using PowerApps connecting to data held in SharePoint Online. 

As this is a dashboard the view is that the App will be shown on a screen without interaction for long periods of the day. 

Unfortunately I get a "Your session has expired" message and stops showing the App after a short amount of time. 

Can this be turned off or at least set a time in configuration e.g. 10 hours?

Any suggestions and advice would be grateful.

[muzammilhussain]

Instead of refreshing the Chrome browser, can I put the timer on the data connection to refresh before 8 hours time, so it can keep connected for further 8 hours? etc.

[Glitch_IT]

Hi,

I think we tried that, and many other thing and the browser refresh was the only thing that worked for us.

[MarcusC]

Has the browser refresh solution not worked for anyone? I have the auto refresh set for every 3 hours but the app session still times out after 8 hours. It's hard to believe this is even still an issue.

[Mbruse]

Anyone solve this yet?  I have an extension for refreshing the browser and the users tell me they get the end session after 4 hours still.  This is a kiosk and supposed to go weeks if not months without interaction.

[MarcusC]

What ended up working for us was to set up a scheduled task that closed the browser and re-opened the app. (We are using an app as a carousel-type solution)

We haven't had the time out issue since we set that up.

[KFagan1]

I had a similar problem , I had to use a browser third party extension to auto refresh webpage ever 30 min to keep session alive ,  Its good to refresh data. 

[Mbruse]

Do you know the extension name?

 This is not working again.   Trying something called Super Simple Refresh at 10 minute intervals

[Mbruse]

When you say Scheduled task - what do you mean specifically?

was this a batch file from the operating system?

[KFagan1]

I used Auto Refresh Plus extention link down below ,  dont really use this version anymore as  it had a malware 

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/auto-refresh-plus/cnnlbfgcaoadjcaoibmffaealbfajbgg

 try these others 

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/search/auto%20refresh

Alternatively you can use timer control to refresh page ,
>> On properties set Autostart to true 
>> On properties TimerEnd type   Lunch("http://yourPowerAppsPage")

>> On Properties Duration set you time , default is (60000) 1 minute I believe