While doing Power Apps training with Pragmatic Works, I usually have a common request after students learn that they can delete records. Someone will usually state they like the usability of the delete function, but are scared to put a delete button on the screen. Their concern is someone will hit it by mistake and then the record will be gone forever.
There are a few ways to fix this issue.
I did a blog/video several weeks ago that shows how to make a pop-up screen to have your end-user click twice before the record is really deleted. You can check it out here Deleting Is Scary.
In this blog/video, I will show you how you can delete a record from the original source, but then back it up in another data source.
To achieve our solution today we will need to meet the following objectives:
* Have two separate data sources that will contain a table/list with the same number of columns, column headers, data types, etc.
*Display our original records in a gallery in the Power App
*Have an icon attached to each record in our gallery for our end user to select which will delete the record as well as
*Use the function PATCH to insert a new record that is not coming from a Power Apps form.
* Use the function REMOVE to delete an existing record
To see all these steps in action check out the DEMO VIDEO here.
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