New Mobile “Offline-First” Setup within PowerApps


In the last blog, we saw How to enable model-driven apps for offline use. Refer to the following link to enable the model-driven app for offline use.

After enabling the app for offline use, the following pop-up gets displayed on the screen.

The user is prompted to download the offline data as shown in the following screenshot. However, users also have an option to skip downloading data due to which the offline experience was not satisfactory.

New Mobile Offline-First Setup

Now Dynamics 365 has introduced a new setting called “offline first mode” with the help of which the user will no longer get the option to skip downloading data for offline use. Instead, now the data will be downloaded automatically in the background.

The offline data will now be automatically synced in the background hence the data will always be the same, regardless of the network connection.

Enable offline-first Setting

The offline-first setting is an app-based setting. It could be enabled using the following steps:

1. Sign in to power…


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Author: Inogic

Inogic is one of the leading Microsoft Dynamics 365 ISV since 10+ years. Its flagship product Maplytics™ is a market leading certified (CfMD) geo-analytical mapping app. Maplytics empowers Dynamics CRM users across industries with the power of geographical data visualization, route optimization and along the route search with turn-by-turn directions, appointment planner, locational search by radius and shapes with drill-down filters and color-coded pushpins, heat maps, shape layers & territory management.   Inogic is renowned for its high quality and low-cost offshore development services and productivity apps like InoLink: QuickBooks + Dynamics CRM, User Adoption Monitor, Attach2Dynamics, Alerts4Dynamics Click2Export, Click2Clone, Kanban Board, SharePoint Security Sync, Lead Automation & Distribution, Map My Relationships, Auto Tax Calculator, Subscription and Recurring Billing and Marketing4Dynamics.

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