PowerApps Deep Linking - Send a direct link to a specific record/screen in your app with parameters 

New version as of October 2023 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-olJWU756tl0.html

Thanks Shane. You have an awesome way of teaching. Appreciated!

This is a little different on new apps today. Check out this video for the change. You will need both videos. First the one you are on now and then watch this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7MxXmGOkeLQ.html

You are the best!!!! Solved my problem!!! In my case I just change 2 things. NOTE: I will use here the same vars from your example (just to get the reference =]): 1) Create a varGallery to create the same Filter that I have in my gallery 2) After the varEmpID, in the IF command, I use If(!IsBlank(Param("ChewyID")) && varEmpID in varGallery.ID With this option we can avoid to get access for another user in IDs that He/She shouldn't to see.

Excellent Shane. Truly appreciate everything you do around the Power Platform Community.

I just set this up on a super complex app I created for a Data Sharing Mechanism form that stores all the information, including metadata regarding PII, customer, configuration, etc. in a SharePoint list as a common data source for all of our company data shares and feeds. Thousands! Now I can send them the link to the item to put into the Service request that this form is tied to. I will automate that one day with Flow. I was worried that varRecord in the App start would mess up where I use it to use one edit form for 3 galleries. Since the id doesn't exist or = 0 at that point it works! Thank you! This feature was requested on during the final release meeting with 100 IT users and managers. You helped me nail the scope creep! Thanks Shane!

Was just wondering how to do this earlier today, so the timing was perfect! Great video as always!

You’re legit saving my life on my job. Thank you!!!!

This was what I needed to sell Power Apps to management. With it now working, who knows. Thanks Shane

God bless you loads Shane Young. I followed your tutorial and was able to DeepLink a complicated system. Thanks man, you rock!

Shane Young - You are the man! I love your videos, and Chewy the nap taker! Excellent work!

As always, Shane - you've gotten me out of a jam! Able to deliver requests to a client!! Thank you so much!

I have seen many DL videos and read many articles on it and Shane's approach with the App OnStart with the if 0 method is more straightforward especially if you are using a global variable to pass around multiple pages, much appreciated Shane!

Congratulations!!! I am from Brasil, and i am learning with you!!!

Update: StartScreen: If(Value(Param("DeepL")) 0, DetailScreen,HomeScreen) OnStart: Set(VarRecord, Lookup(Employee,ID = value(Param("DeepL")))) ---

Great video. We are using deep linking for Approvals

Very nice basic setup, Shane. And clear instructive video with every step needed. This is a usefull functionallity. Stay simple, keep on having fun in making your video's. Gr. Lex

Great, easy-to-follow video as usual. Thank you!

With this video, you just not only saved my day, but you simply saved my life !!! Thank you Shane !!! :-D

Hi Shane! Love all the videos. I see that Microsoft disabled the ability to navigate from the OnStart property. I even enabled it in the settings, but it still throws an error. And entering in the code from OnStart in the StartScreen property creates a different error. Just curious if you posted anything that would help get around this issue? Thanks!

Amazing Shane. This is Decent stuff. Will give it a try. 👍👍👍

Great stuff as always Shane. Just added this functionality to one of my customer's apps and they love it!

Great sharing. Second time watching the lightbulb came on. Keep the awesomeness coming.

I appreciate your videos very much, thank you sir!

Thanks !! This helps me develop an application with a custom URL for the users

you refreshed my learnings... learning treat indeed. Hurrahhhhhhhh

Great video. For some reason, RU-vid suggests to me your videos which answers questions I’m about to ask 😀

Thanks Shane! this was very helpful! What about sending a deeplink mail notification when an new record is created?

A great, useful and easy to follow video. Thanks for taking the time to make it the right length to understand. Almost solves my use case - just trying to add in a validation step / dynamic content so that the user can't predict the URL and get access to other people's data (and also hide the navigation control so that they are stuck in the details screen). Some great steps to get me there faster.

21:16 I don't know if I speak for everyone, but we would have loved to hear chewy's input.

Thank you Shane! Did not know this would be possible!

It's working perfectly! thanks!

Many Thanks Shane!!!! Really a great video on a very useful feature!! Thanks a lot!

As usual, thanks for such a great video. I already implemented deep linking in some of my apps, but I'll use the information from your video to improve the way these links work. Keep it up! PS: OMG I LOVE THE HIDENAVBAR PARAMETER! THANK U!

Thanks for the info man, saved my bacon today, somehow completly forgot how to do it.

This is great. Thanks Shane.

Muchas Gracias Shane ... Saludos desde PERU!!!!

Too cool! Perfect for two current projects!

hi , i've seen your videos and learned a lot. i got a question how can I use deep linking according the user email i do not want they can get into someone else screen using the mobile version. I want to learn a way people can only get into their details screen i do really appreciate the help!

Thank you Shane for this and your other videos. Very helpful! The deep link is indeed a fun concept. The only thing to maybe emphasize is that if you're doing some things on the gallery's on select button, they won't be done when using deep link. Need to think about that. Another thing that I had to spend a lot of time to figure out the problem was that user().full name brought me different values when logged in directly to the app or via email (deep link). Not sure if it has to do with the settings in our company or with PowerApps.

As always. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Hello Shane, first of all many thanks for sharing such a nice way to add deep linking. I used it in many of my App and it is working very perfectly. What I was looking for is , i have multiple screens and I want different deep links to direct to different screens. I would glad if you share the steps or else make any video on that. Many thanks, Akshay.

Great content Shane, thanks for posting that. Helped me a lot!

Thank you Shane for the wonderful Video. I exactly wanted this functionality to be achieved. I had a query. How to send parameters in the URL from the App...Like when any User opens the app, it should pass the hidenavbar=true in the URL so that the Navbar goes away instead of the User typing that thing in the URL everytime he opens my app. P.S.: I figured out a way to do it. In the OnStart of the App, I used the logic: If(IsBlank(Param(hidenavbar)), Launch(YOUR APP URL, {hidenavbar: "true"}, Replace)). The only disadvantage is that the app loads twice. Please let me know if you figure out a solution in one stratight shot

Fantastic. I especially liked the use of varRecord. However, it appears that there's no way to be able to debug a PowerApp while specifying a PARAM variable - right?

Hi! Has there been an update in Powerapps on this? Because the part on 9:29 I get error "Navigate is not permitted in OnStart. Use the StartScreen property instead." Not sure how this should be used in StartScreen property since it doesn't allow navigate function there either. Thank you Shane for the helpful videos though, I tried to follow Microsoft's own learning path on how to do this and couldn't understand it, you explain these things so well. Br, Mika

Thanks Shane high quality as always

Hi, in this video you are basing the record on the button click. What if I want to send email through a power automate flow once new item created in a share point list, and that email has a link to the edit form in the app directly selected that item from the main gallery?

Hi Shane, thank you so much for this awesome video and thanks for all you do to help people. 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?

great video Shane , how do i insert the screen instead of the record

Hello Shane thx for this great tutorial, I have one big issue with this solution. The PowerApp I built is used on mobil and pc. If you click on the link the I get the correct parameter. If the app stays open and I use another link with a different ID it doesn't work. The parameter isn't updating if the app stays open. I tried some stuff with timer (repeat, autostart.....). I didn't find a way to reset the Parameters. Do you have any ideas?

9:07 for the App OnStart. Opening my app without a parameter was opening the app to an empty details screen when my if statement was if(varEmpID "",... I had to use if(!IsBlank(varEmpID),... and then the app would open to the default screen with no parameter. Opening the App with a Parameter worked regardless. Could be because my app uses a string for a parameter.

What if adding the ID does not show in the URL. In fact the detail screen and browse screen have the exact same URL. And when you add the ID to the url to make a link, it does not deep link to the item?

Hi Shane... awesome video, extremely helpful.,.... Sorry but I am not able to download the app which mentioned in description

Hey Shane. Thank you for all the videos you create about PowerApps, they are very practical and helpful, specially for non-developers such as myself but needs to process and innovation improvement as engineer - Quality and Industrial Engineering. I am having some issues, I have followed your instructions on how this Deep Linking, I am getting the link on my email but for whatever reason I am not getting the link to a SPECIFIC RECORD OR SCREEN. Could you please help? Thanks

Hi Shane thanks for your video. What if I would like to Send a direct link to Two screens, is it possible? I mean to use direct link in one app for two screens

Hi Shane, Thanks a ton for the video! When I tried to use it to open power apps with params in a mobile device, I realized the parameter is ONLY passed/updated when a user currently have the App closed/unopened and starting the app freshly. It seems not updating the Param("...") value if an app is already opened. Did you notice this issue and potentially have a work around on that? Thanks a lot again!

Hi Shane, Do you have an idea why sometimes, when clicking Link from email do not direct you to the specific record thus, it prompted me with metadata=true or metadata=false included with the app link? I am using the Deep Linking function.

Excellent video Shane, as always. Question, is it impossible to get working with gallery.selected or just more complicated? Thanks !

Shane, currently done this all works fine however i have an error message that says the following about navigating directly to the "details screen" which states 'the specified property is not accessible in this context' i have sanity checked every part multiple times and its all coded the same

Brilliant! am I able to use deep linking in my power automate approval action and just paste it in the 'Item link' field. Thank you

Thanks Shane, you are a PowerApps legend Is there any way to remove the RECORD data stored in the variable varRecord (delete the variable or just wipe out all its data)? Couldn’t find any way to do so

Still a valuable tutorial!

Great video - is there any way to control the time that the email is sent after the button is clicked (so that your boss does not get it at 03:00AM) directly from powerapps ?

How can you do the same for an item that is newly submitted? Example: user creates new request and you want to email the user link to the information they submitted?

Nice work Shane !!!!!

Hi Shane, I have an application that send me an email with a link to a specific screen it works quite fine, but the problem is when the application keeps running on background in a smartphone, when I click in a new link, it brings the application up on the last screen opened and redirection doesn't work, do you know how to solve this? Note. if you close the app after use it links works fine. Thanks.

Fantastic video as always.. SO everything works fine except it doesnt pull the data. It takes me to the correct page but the form data is not displayed. It just says Getting your data

Hi Shane, brilliant Video, super useful . Just a question, is there a way I could perhaps hide(or encrypt) the additional ID parameter in the Link, so that users dont get to change/add ID's of their liking?

Hi Shane, thank you for this video, i am stuck and need your help. I followed the steps in the video and deep linking is working, however, the data from the sharepoint is not displaying on the page that i navigate my users to. I am trying to create a Approval (Admin) page, where the approver can either Approve or reject a new entry. Please help.

Thank you thank you thank you!

The Navigate() in the OnStart is not longer supported. What can I do now?

This is great. Is it possible to get the url links of each items and be saved in a sharepoint list and then show in the power bi report as url icon? So if users are on power bi report, they can click the url from there and launch powerapp

Hi - Could you please walk through the sharepoint list and column. It is creating confusion that what is ID. Is it a column in sharepoint or gallery id

Hi Shane, Can you show me How to open a specific item when click a notification on mobile app?

Hello Shane, unable to make the navigate function in OnStart. PowerApps says that it is forbidden Any idea?

Hi Shane, thank you for this video, is it possible to add this button on the gallery for each record and use it to send email instead of going to the other screen and sending email

Hi Shane, I'm quite new to PowerApps and this video is a big help. Is it possible to send to 2 different email address, 2 different URLs from one submit button?

how do I link within the powerapp to a specific record? I am looking at the FAQ Template and I want at some part of the app link to one specifc FAQ, how to add the ID to the navigate function?

Out of interest Just tried this but had to change the 0 to be Blank() - any ideas why this might be the case?

figured it out meanwhile... replace the & with %26 and it's being replaced by & in the resulting URL, remains URLEncoding the parameter :-(

Excellent video!! How would it be to place that personalized link inside a QR code? that at the time of registering an employee, the QR is automatically generated and taken to the registry to check the status Thank you greetings

Another great video, Shane. I have a question on this topic that I've not seen asked before: I do deep linking successfully, but let's say that the app has a button to take the user to a gallery, where they can then select a different item in the gallery and edit it. If the app originally opened with the parameter as part of the URL and then (in the same session) the user clicks around to find themselves in the gallery to select a different item, then the form will load up the original item still since the parameter is still there in the URL. Is there any way to achieve this use case, and/or to nullify the parameter in-app once the user clicks around?

Hi Shane, learned a lot from this. Could you do one when the app is opened in MS Teams? I can't make the URL point to the specific record, but only opens the first page of the app.

Hii, I need to store the screen on which the user left the app and directly navigate to the same screen when he opens the app again. Can you help how it will be done?

I gather that you can't create links to specific forms, only to the Screen that is selected as the Start Screen. So if the link takes the user to a form that would be different depending on a few factors, I'm going to have to account for that with code on the form correct? I can't create links to different forms?

Hi, Shane. This video has been absolutely helpful for a very specific need I had. There's always a Shane Young video for almost every situation, yeeeeey. However, I have a doubt about how to implement Deep Linking in the context of creating a new register. Say, a typical powerapps that lets the user create new registers and everytime they create a new one...they receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to the new register. With what you showed here, everytime I create a new register the form is submitted and the form sort of "resets" to the previous register. Therefore, the e-mail the user receives comes with a link to the previous register...not the new one. Any tips to sort this out? Thanks in advance :)

HI Shane, thanks for all the awesome videos! Will this work differently in power apps for teams? Thanks again!

alternate approach to try concatenate two parameters and pass as one param from canvas app and split it in power bi please tell me

Hi Shane, great stuff as always, quick question have you ever been able to pass a parameter thru that has an ampersand in it. For example I have to pass company names to an app and I have AT&T as a company name, right now the name comes in as AT

Hello Shane, After deep linking(which it worked perfectly, thanks for the help!), the application does not start on the first screen (welcome screen for me). Instead, it starts on the screen where I deep linked to and I don't know how to fix it. When I delete the deep linking code, the application starts on a welcome screen when users click on the app instead of the link sent to email. Any help would be great. Thanks

Hi Shane - this video (and your other ones) was super helpful as a new user to Power Apps and Power Automate. Thanks! I was wondering is it possible to add this deeplink into a flow approval notification?

I'm trying to send an email (right now via Power Automate) with the deeplink to my PowerApps edit screen when a new record is created OR try to pull in the deeplink into a column on my sharepoint list (data source), how can I do this?

Instead of triggering from a button how can we do that automatically if item is created or updated....

For the App, Onstart event, Might I know where ID come from? Thx a lot

Is it possible to do this using the Launch command? I don’t have access to Office365Outlook and when I try this with Launch it chokes on the “&” symbol in the URL

Hi Shane, I'm having an issue with this, hopefully you can put me right please? If I edit a record, it works fine. My problem is with a new record. When I submit the form my email either has no record or the ID of the last viewed record, meaning the deep link sends me to the wrong record. Thanks Craig

Thank you so much! Great Video!!!!

Deep linking using records is cool but I don't think I saw how to deep link directly to a screen. would i be right in assuming you would have it set to navigate(varScreen,none) and then set(varScreen, param()) ?

Great video my deep linking emails are working excellent and saving me a ton of time. I am now trying to link 2 seperate powerapps together, so a button press on 1 app opens a specific screen in another. I tried using this and still no luck. I am using text rather than numerical values. Is this the same thing? Do you have a video on this?