SaveData – How to persist your Power Apps sessions!

Introduction

Making your Power Apps offline capable can significantly enhance the usability of the apps. The two functions that assist in adding offline capabilities are SaveData and LoadData (click here to read more about these functions). These functions have traditionally only worked on mobile devices. Yes, they have also worked on the desktop Power Apps app but that app isn't really supported anymore.

Tip - SaveData on desktop!

Not many know but you can now use SaveData and LoadData for apps that are embedded in Teams! The storage space is limited to 1MB but it can still be pretty useful for persisting your app sessions. The reason why that becomes important is because when you are using an app in one of your team's channels and you decide to switch to another tab within the channel, you lose your session and the app restarts when you come back to the app's tab. SaveData & LoadData allow you to save the data a user has entered e.g. values entered in a form that hasn't been submitted yet. This ensures the user can continue from where they left off when they come back to the app's tab! To read about this in detail, click here.

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