Application Restart

[wjhepworth]

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.

[wjhepworth]

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]

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.

[BrianR]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[rodieremix]

Yes I'd love to see this as well!

[cineas]

Yes ,  we need the refresh. Thanks

[Audrie-MSFT]

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]

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