PowerApps creating SharePoint record using data connection and not user id

[livingstonep]

we are testing a new PowerApp that creates records on two SharePoint Lists, one a Master list and one a Detail list...

The PowerApp isusing a service login called BHF App Connector for the data connections - see this image:

the user creates several detail records, and when ready, clicks the button Submit request, which calls UpdateIf to set the status of the Master record to submitted.

We have noticed that when I am using the PowerApp (but not anyone else) the records are being created in the list with the data login BHF App Connector in the Created by and Modified by fields - see below image

so what can be causing this - and how do we prevent it?

[mdevaney]

@livingstonep
To my knowledge PowerApps will always write the record as whoever is logged in. You must be currently logged into the BHF App Connector account. Log out and login to your personal account then conduct a test.

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[livingstonep]

this is the strange thing - I am not logged in as BHF App Connector, I am logged in as myself.

I have even rebooted my pc but it's still happening...

I only used the BHF App Connector in the PowerApps studio to add the SharePoint connectors to the lists...and I have rebooted since closing the studio after publishing the PowerApp

[mdevaney · Accepted solution]

@livingstonep 

Two other ideas:

#1  What happens if you play the app from another computer logged in as yourself?  (The credentials might be cached on your machine).

#2  What happens if you clear your browser cache and play the app logged in as yourself?

(Did the app ever work?  I mean did it ever show you as the creator?)

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[livingstonep]

hi,

I cleared all site data, cached data and cookies, restarted the browser, and the same thing happens.

I also tried using In-private/Incognito windows on both Chrome and Firefox with the same result.

any other ideas?

[vwyankee]

I would also like to know how to change this when it (somehow) is set. I've created a number of Power Apps and they all write to SP with the user logged in account but have one app that is using the Power App SharePoint connector account for some reason which throws so many things out the window with galleries only showing users "their stuff" based on the Created By SP column. How does one app end up having this set but no others?

[mdevaney]

@vwyaankee
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