Yes, we know. No self-respecting D365 developer can stand the idea of writing the same line of code twice. Code reusability is at the core of the object-oriented development and certainly is in our book. As it stands, Power Apps aren’t lending easily to code reuse at the moment. Therefore, a creative approach is called for. One way code reuse can be achieved is by implementing the logic on a ‘click’ of a button (OnSelect event) and then ‘clicking’ the button programmatically throughout the application. Note, that this approach is limited to the same-page context; and while it is possible to extend it to other pages in your application, the user experience may be compromised (page flickering etc.).
Here is a flavor of how it is done:
- Create ‘invisible’ buttons to mimic functions – we like to prefix these with ‘function*’ to indicate their purpose.
- Implement logic on the OnSelect event
- In the below example, one ‘function’ calls two other functions. RefreshCollections() invokes the getSales() and the getCustomers() logic:
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This ‘function’ could then be leveraged from different events on the page. For example, on page load and on a periodic data refresh timer tick:
