Power Apps Deep Linking to Screen | App StartScreen & OnStart 

It's brilliant to force the app to auto-restart every time launching it. Thanks you Reza for this amazing video and it unblocked a huge blocker on my project from implementing deep linking since we couldn't get the params update!!

I use this time and again when embedding specific screens in sharepoint modals as a quick way to capture user input. Time off requests, specific team engagement requests, class surveys, etc. etc. Instead of having people navigate through your app, you can link directly to the right screen in the most conducive setting (email, sharepoint, teams channel, flow script). Thank you as always, Reza, for your dedication to this community! I point new people to your channel regularly :)

The main thing that I love your videos is that you cover a concept or a feature completely! Thanks for your comprehensive tutorial.

We are always on the same page. This was very timely to me last week and when the old method didn't work anymore, it took me an hour to figure out how to use the parameter in the App.OnStart and the condition in the App.StartScreen. It's actually much easier now to set up deep linking. I'm going to watch this to try to pick up pointers from the best! Thanks Reza!

Your video is a sanity saver Reza! I spent days trying to follow the guidance of other articles / videos that led to nothing but frustration. Thank you sir!

Really, I don't know in which way I should thank you, I was hesitating to see the video because I am fully aware of deep linking then I said "No, Reza always makes videos for a good purpose ",&RestartApp=true, this what I have been searching for a long time, always there is something new to learn from this channel,😉

Brilliant! I'm on my 3rd re-write of my app, and this helped nail down a few things. The "restartApp=true" in the deep link is a real gem! Thank you!

Thank you thank you thank you ! This is exactly what I was looking for and it was so easy to follow!!

I've been trying to find a good lesson on deep linking, and was not surprised to finally get to one created by you!

A day never ended without @Reza Dorrani, Thank you so much 🐱‍🏍🐱‍🏍🐱‍🏍🐱‍🏍

I cannot express in words how much you helped me with this video! I was already impressed by the quality of your other videos such as the one with your explanation of designing the grid view, but this video helped me with the very specific solution of forcing the app to restart in the parameter section to make sure the user always is send to the right screen. Your solutions are better than ChatGPT can think of, thanks a lot.

This is fantastic Reza! It's exactly what I was after for an app I a building. I don't want users to go to SharePoint interface to see item details screen. Love watching your videos and learning! Keep them coming!

Great work Reza - you always go that extra mile like including the issue with Mobile restartApp. Thanks!

Saved... bookmarked... watched and will watch again... Nice one Reza 👍👍💥💥

Reza Dorrani - You are amazing. Not even half way though this video and I was able to deep link my newly created app and could send deeplink url in approval notifications. Keep helping and keep sharing amazing videos

Another amazing video Reza, thanks sooo much!

Thank you so much for your help Reza! This is exactly what I was looking for an app I'm building! Again, thank you!

This is an amazing video Reza! Thanks so much for sharing with the world :) I saw in your Linkedin you joined Microsoft recently! Congratulations and best wishes for this new journey! You deserve all the success and best things in the world!

If you'd be a chef, you had a permanent 3 star Michelin rating. Excellent stuff Reza!!!

Thank you so much for your thorough explanation! I got my email workflow right, but I was struggling with the OnStart vs Start Screen properties and how to set the navigation to the appropriate screen/patch form. It all clicked in noggin after that, and it worked like a charm. Keep up the good work.

This is a great refresher video for me on deep linking. Thank you Reza

Hi Reza, thank you for all your videos. I am getting a lot of learning on your videos. With all of those videos i was capable to build some sharepoint integrated applications in my Job. Keep doing these great videos, you are amazing!

I really love your videos and way of explaining

This is a great video, as are all your others. You are my go-to.

Thank You so much for sharing your knowledge and skills! Really appreciate it!

Thank you for this! This really helped with my project and pretty straightforward. 🙂

This channel should have more subscribers. Great content with a clear explanation as always 👍

&RestartApp=true and I learnt something new... I rhythmed. Thanks Reza just another awesomely explained well needed topic. 👍🏻❤

Thanks for all the hard thought and preparation and effort behind this gift that you have so graciously shared. Best wishes for you in your new role with Microsoft.

Many Thanks Reza!!! I was waiting for this video from a long... ! Thanks a ton once again!!

Brilliant video Reza -ji! Thank you!

Hey Reza. Brilliant video! Thank you so much!!!

This tutorial is amazing! Does this type of deeplinking only work when there is only one form present on the screen you are trying to deep link to?

Wish to give 1000 likes to this video. Many thanks, Reza 😊

Good day What a video really informative 👏. And you answered my question about the mobile deep linking champion 🏆 Enjoy the rest of your week and keep the content coming.

Awesome explanation as always. Thank you!

Hello Reza, I have two screens with gallery. when I preview I could see gallery, but when I am using deep-linking I could see only one gallery. I could not see other gallery which is in other screen. Could you please tell what might be the possibilities?

Many thanks for this video! It helped me a lot :)

Amazing video as usual! Thanks, Reza!

Thanks a lot reza for this amazing video abt deep links. Just wanted to know is there any video published by you about wireframe and supported tools for powerapps projects.

Terrific video with top notch explanation. Many Thanks Reza!! I have a question, you are passing the item ID in the app url using a flow in the background still there is a possibility where users can manually pass different id's in the URL directly and they can view different the records. How do we prevent this?

Great video thanks Reza - will adapt my applications.

This is a great lesson on deep linking. I have got it to mostly work. I am able to get my deep link to open to the page I want, but not to the tab I need the user to go to on the page. How do we go about deep linking to a specific tab (this instance is tab 2) on a page?

Great video. 3 takeaways namely the mobile app restart issue I couldn't resolve .

Hello Reza, Thank you so much for your work, your videos are brilliant and extremely helpful, When I deep link to a form the values selected in the people picker are blank, how can I fix this?

Hi Reze, thank you for the nice video. I found if we use the Display Form for the deep linking, that one does not work, it will show "Getting your data....". my understanding is that display form is faster than the StartScreen

App.Onstart is not available in my current version even if I turned it on in settings (retired) feature. I got away with this by checking if param has a value in the startscreen, then I navigate it to the page where they would view the detail correctly. on the specific screen, i added the rules in the onvisible event to populate varRecord. Thanks! watching the video helped in a way

Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for this!

Well explained ,Thanks Reza !

Another amazing video with details given where others do not provide. Thank you. In the Switch formula, the Admin "If" statement for security, how does the query go if using a list of approvers (e.i.A3 Approvers list) with emails in the list? or if using a SharePoint group?

Its very useful scenario. Thank You @reza

For some reason, it would not let me change the value of my gift because a couple of bucks is way too little for the time you gave back to me. Thank you again.

Hi Reza, your videos are very much helpful and informative. I have a doubt regarding the deep linking concept. I have implemented Deep Linking Concept, every time I publish the app with new changes the weblink gets generated. If I provide weblink in deep linking as hard coded. Is it going to take the new version Web Link? or else what is the solution to get the new published version web link. Thanks In Advance

Hi Reza, thank you so much for this awesome video and thanks for all you do to help people. I don't know whether you got my previous comment or not, but I have one question. I have built a form using Power Apps. My form has 5 checkbox fields which allows for multiple selections. I have also built responsive gallery to display the items on Power Apps. Now the issue that I am having is, I wanted to have a deep linking URL to get the URL of a particular record. I followed the video and did it. But, when I view the record clicking on the link, none of the checkbox selections are shown. Are there any settings that I'm missing?

Thanks Reza for this good tutorial. Instead of copying the URL, is is possible to make a getURL fonction? I work on 3 differents environments so I have to change the code after importing the package on another environment.

Reza, that was a great video 👏 ... I really got to know a lot about deep linking. I have a question . I'm working on a similar scenario where I want the users to navigate to various screens via email links but I'm hide/show some fields on screens based on the role (Admin,Manager etc) which I'm currently checking and storing the value to a global variable in 'Onstart' property of the tablet /desktop App. Will those values still be valid while deep linking or should I use the restartApp function and get those values again for showing or hiding some fields on the screen ?

Another awesome video, thanks a lot! Reza

Thanks for this demostration Reza, Excellent and clear explanation as always. Quick question.. could you recommend a alternative Deep Link approach for Dataverse Tables in which ID column is replaced by GUID?. Thanks in advance.

Hi Reza, this is so great! I've been trying to do something similar in a PowerApp for Teams and having a lot of problems, the string requirements are different. Is there any chance you are going to one for Teams?

Hi Reza, I am developing a PowerApp for the client I work for, and whenever I am facing any issues or blockers I refer your videos and articles, that helps me a lot, Rn I am stuck in the Deep Linking, I am able to navigate to the desired screen through the link, but I am not sure the Data ( SharePoint Lists) are not getting loaded through deep linking, otherwise they are getting loaded.

Thank you so much

Thanks Reza, appreciate all your time and efforts put into your content! I was reading through all comments to see if anyone had same scenario as myself, and it looks like "Doda Soares" possibly did...But i have one app for multiple types of requests. So each screen saves to a different SPO lists depending on request type. I want the admins of their respective list be able to see (an email with the deep link) the request submitted, is there any filtering I would need to do on start for the app to know which list the ID is coming from?...if that makes sense

Another great video! I am attempting to do deep linking from a SharePoint list. I am trying to grab the ID parameter that I am passing in the OnStart for the app and setting it to a variable but the assignment doesn't ever work for me. It works in the On Visible for the form. Does the OnStart run when deep linking to a page other than the home page of a Power App?

Thank you for this video. However, I have been having some trouble with the restartApp parameter. Did you set that parameter somewhere within PowerApps? Because it is still not auto-refreshing and I feel like I missed a part. When I click on the link in the email, it tells me that there is a new version of the app and asks me to refresh it.

Great Video Reza. Just like always. I have a similar question related to deep linking from email or push notifications. I have one drop down on an analysis screen and one display form connected to my share point list in same screen. User need to select drop down to filter the form. Is it possible that i can predefine the dropdown value in the URL so when the approver clicks on the URL drop down is preselect3f

Hi Reza. Thanks again for another great video! Quick question: Can you pass a variable with the deep linking? I've been successful with setting up the deep link connection to the specific page. However, depending on the variable OnVisible, different tables will appear. I'd like to have the variable defined in the link, if possible. So, for example, Team A and Team B have a link to the same page. However, they each see something different on arrival. Can the Switch(Param("screenname")... step be expanded to do this?

Great video! I have a question as to whether setting the variable for Item and using that in a link will allow multiple people to open a link to the edit page with different Item numbers at the same time? Or will it reset to the new Item if someone opens a link while another user is editing their item?

Hi Raza, I am developing a PowerApp for the client I work for, and whenever I am facing any issues or blockers I refer your videos and articles, that helps me a lot, Rn I am stuck in the Deep Linking, I am able to navigate to the desired screen through the link, but I am not sure the Data ( SharePoint Lists) are not getting loaded through deep linking, otherwise they are getting loaded.

Hi Reza, the outcome of your solution is brilliant. I tried step by step on my end and the StartScreen section is not working for me. I noticed you did a deep link for your app Request Leave. Is it possible to share a video on how you did that one? On my case either my link is not built properly or the StartScreen setup is not working somehow. Thanks

Hi Reza, thanks for the video!!... my powerapp has lot of variables and dependent collection that are getting loaded on app start...the app onstart and the deeplinked screen onvisible actions runs asynchronously..so, on app start if i give the param id value to a variable the id is not retrieved as expected in deeplinked screen.. to fix this i used the param id directly on onvisible action of the deeplinked screen against a set variable.. so, if the deeplink url is called, this set variable takes the id from the url or if the navigation happen within the app, the variable takes the value from the previous screen.. kindly let me know if this approach is correct or anywhere it could fail..

amazing as usual, if possible to make a video on how to get user custom properties such as Employee ID as well as how to get user details from a custom property (EmployeeID). Also, is there any possibility to import fonts to PowerApps. Thanks

Thanks!

Dear Reza, Great work! quick one please, will the same method work in Start and Wait approval also? I mean if we add the different screens url in Start and Wait approval as a link will it be behave the same? Pls advise.

Great Video Raza!

Thank you for good videos. How I can clear content of a cell in excel with a if condition in power automate flow?

Hi reza , Thanks for this video , i have one question. When i am trying deep linking from email it is redirecting me to the screen but in the edit form it is showing getting your data but will not give any output in form

Wow, thanks. I'm learning :)

Hi Reza, I've implemented this and I get the parameters to work just fine. I am doing this instead of using a flow to send emails, etc... and all of that is working except the delay between steps is causing problems, the email arrives before the record is written to SharePoint list. ANYWAY, is there any way to delay some aspect of this so that the next step owner doesn't get the link until the record has been written to the list? Or is the only way to do that by using a flow?

Thank you for your informative videos, which are very beneficial. I have a question! How do you collect fields before navigating to the screen in Powerapps, when using SharePoint as a source?

Hey Reza great video. Does deep linking work with SharePoint links as well? Say I have a link in my SharePoint site that I want to connect to a specific screen in my Powerapp. Is that possible?

Awesome video.

Can we do the same for custom page , and does it start with the model driven app or the custom page itself?

Hello! do you have a specific video on how to do the very last example you've shown, the one with clicking the list items, they opened in the embedded canvas app? I've been trying to achieve this unsuccessfully!! :( Thank you Reza

Thanks Man !

in my case I have a page in that page request actions are there like incr click here to start ,bkf click here to start, etc , and when I click on incr it opens power apps form and I this form I have a data source as sharepoint list ,in this list resource action column is there that data cardvalue in the form is auto filled by incr/bkf/etc based on the user clicks on the incr click here to start /bkf click here to start/etc how to do this and in the app.onstart set(var action,param{"action"}) like this I am taking

Great video Reza. Is it possible to deep link to a patch form instead?

Small doubt, can we use same variable and param Id for different screens

Yh Reza thanks for the video🎉. Now in my project i did a similar deeplink. But when we click on the link it says app isnt opening correctly (he has access) but if we directly open from the application the app is working fine and later if we refresh the application which shown error before it works fine. What is the exact issue Reza is it cache issue or how to fix it . Please help me asap😢. Its deadline

Hello Reza, Thank you for this video. How do you deep linking where you have to ensure that one of the fields is editable while others should be view only containing details of a form

Hi Reza, Is there anyway to open a website inside any control of powerapps for example container?

I want to have a link to my powerapp form for a new ticket. However, I can't find a link to it that doesn't go to the old sharepoint form style. Is this possible or will I have to use the "New" button on the list page?

@RezaDorrani i have query ..can we deeplink to specific records in different screens.Suppose you have 4 screens.i want to get the deeplink of recordsID that is from admin page,events,etc and display it in the editview of the form.

Here the backend is dataverse- can we do deep linking with SharePoint list as a back end

I need more to understand the introduction of start screen. What is the use of removing navigate screen from app start, I can't understand this, if If write concurrent function and all my variables are set inside thatand I try to launch a different screen it should load screen as my conditions in app start, even if it is imperative, until I have all my variables in place with all the data required before user to work on, what is the use of loading screen from start screen without variable consisting data? My point is they shouldn't remove navigate keyword usage from app.onstart , it should be allowed in both on start and start screen where user can get the benefits of power fx in both ways.

Great video..

Question, is your 'List of Events' and 'Admin' same data source?

Hi Reza, is there a way to reset the deep linking? specially if i go back to the mainscreen of my app, the link did not change so if i refresh my browser it go back on the link(with the deep linking).

one question, I just added a powerapps inside a powerbi, and I have conditioned the startscreen depending on the value of the parameter that I get from powerbi to powerapps, in the app it works, but when I open the powerbi it doesn't, why can it be? thank you!

@RezaDorani I'm getting this error following the link on an email: Record Is Unavailable The requested record was not found or you do not have sufficient permissions to view it. Any idea how to resolve this