Navigating from one custom page to another with parameters

[Harry1]

Hi all, I hope someone can help.

I am trying to go from one custom page to another while passing through parameters, I have tried using the launch function passing in the URL of the custom page within the model driven app however that simply returns an error whilst simply only passing in the URL works fine but does not allow me to include any parameters to carry into the other custom page: 

Found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-param

I have also tried using the Navigate function as highlighted in the custom page docs but these docs give no information about how to carry over parameters to use in the other page so it does not seem to be useful in this case:

Found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/model-driven-apps/page-powerfx-in-model-app

So if anyone can point me to another way to navigate to other custom pages from custom pages which allow me to include parameters I can use in the second custom page or can tell me any parameters I have missed, I would be very thankful.  Is this the kind of thing which would require custom JavaScript or is this something that can be doe innately in the system?

[v-yujincui-msft]

Hi @Harry1 ，

Do you want to pass parameters using the Navigate() function?
You can try the formula like this:

Navigate( Details, ScreenTransition.Fade, { ID: 12 , Shade: Color.Red } )

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-navigate#syntax

Best Regards,

Charlie Choi

[Harry1]

hi @v-yujincui-msft,

Unfortunately I have tried that however it does not seem to work for this case, to navigate from one custom page to another, it simply throws an error when I click it and takes me out of the model driven app. 

This function with the additional parameters seems to be for navigating between Screens on a single custom page or canvas app and that is not what I am struggling with.

Thanks for the attempt though,

Harry

[davidyc]

I am also experiencing this - does anyone else have a solution?

[tbe]

I also experienced this and it seems that the function navigate() with additional parameters only works for screens inside a custom page but not to navigate from a custom page to another custom pages. I'm very interested to find a solution for it. 

Also Microsoft suggest to use multiple custom pages instead of multiple screens in a custom page. But if it is not possible to pass data between the custom pages , we could not follow the suggestion 😉  - see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/model-driven-apps/page-powerfx-in-model-app#enabli... 

[davidyc]

Hi tbe,

I have found a syntax for a URL that will work with the Launch() expression in PowerFx. You can use an environment variable for the org name if you are deploying the custom page into another environment. 

The recordid below is for the record that you want to pass to another custom page. The destination page can pick up the 'id' parameter using param().

Here is the syntax: 

https://<org_name>.crm11.dynamics.com/main.aspx?appid=<app_id>&pagetype=custom&name=<customPageLogic...

Let me know if this works for you.

[NancyK]

Hello davidyc,

Your answer looks very promising, unfortunately the forums have truncated the URL making it unusable. Could you please provide it in text form?

Thanks in advance!

[Brendan1]

I'm about to dive into attempting this myself, and found this post.  I suspect the URL will look like: 

https://<org_name>.crm11.dynamics.com/main.aspx?appid=<app_id>&pagetype=custom&name=<logical name of the custom page>&entityname=<logical name of the table>&recordid=<record id>

If I get it working i'll post back with any gotchas I find.

Cheers,

Brendan

[davidyc]

pretty much, except the entity name and record id params are slightly different:

https://<org>.crm11.dynamics.com/main.aspx?appid=<appID>&forceUCI=1&pagetype=custom&name=<customPageLogicalName>&etn=<entityLogicalName>&id=<recordId>

[davidyc]

Sorry for the delay, see my reply below,