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wjhepworth

Application Restart

Submitted by Advocate V on ‎01-09-2018 10:53 AM

 

Presently, it is extremely difficult to force OnStart events and OnVisible events to predictably fire when going between development and preview modes.  Strongly recommend a simple Restart button that allows the OnStart event to fire predictably when entering Preview mode.

 

Status: Planned

We understand your feedback, and improvements are planned for being able to preview OnState statements. However, I don't have a date for when this will be released yet.

 

Just sharing a tip that I normally do; I will put the OnStart statements in the OnVisible of the first screen until I have everything working the way I'd like it to work. Then before publishing the changes I move them into the OnStart. This may fill the gap for you until we can enhance this experience.

 

Thank you for your patience and continued feedback,

Audrie

10 Comments (10 New)
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wjhepworth
Advocate V
Advocate V
‎01-09-2018 10:54 AM

As a follow up, I have not seen any articles that suggest how to accomplish this other than refreshing browser (requires re-login) or closing browser .. again, forcing a new login.

 

RickM
Regular Visitor
‎01-11-2018 01:01 PM

I've noticed this issue as well.  As an additional alternative, I've been using the 'Close' app option and then reloading it.  Still a bit painful, but at least it doesn't require you to re-authenticate into the web site.

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎04-23-2018 12:04 PM

Totally agree, this needs to be resolved and is very frustrating!

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎05-07-2018 08:31 AM

I would love to have an App Refresh button that would reload the app, not just the datasets. Which would retrigger the OnStart event

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎08-01-2018 06:57 AM

Yes I'd love to see this as well!

cineas
New Member
‎08-02-2018 08:32 AM

Yes ,  we need the refresh. Thanks

Audrie-MSFT
Power Automate
Power Automate
‎10-05-2018 05:50 PM
Status changed to: Planned

We understand your feedback, and improvements are planned for being able to preview OnState statements. However, I don't have a date for when this will be released yet.

 

Just sharing a tip that I normally do; I will put the OnStart statements in the OnVisible of the first screen until I have everything working the way I'd like it to work. Then before publishing the changes I move them into the OnStart. This may fill the gap for you until we can enhance this experience.

 

Thank you for your patience and continued feedback,

Audrie

Slaverty6
Regular Visitor
‎12-19-2019 10:20 AM

Would love to see this implemented too! At the moment I'm having to use PITA formulas to update nested variables defined in OnStart, would be so much easier if I could just assign something like "Run(OnStart)" to a button's OnSelect

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎09-21-2020 02:22 PM

@Audrie-MSFT I cannot believe this -- but I need this feature, my Engineer told me we are blocked because of this --- I am now ripping through all the technical docs i can find to will this away... 

 

- Matt Emma 

 

You can imagine my surprise when I read this too... 

Matt_C1
Regular Visitor
‎07-20-2021 12:17 PM

Wow - over 3 years later and this still is not a "feature".  I put feature in quotes because this is an essential functionality that's just missing.  How are you supposed to test something out with any degree of efficiency if the developer has to exit and re-open PowerApps just to reset the form?