How to Create a Timer App in Power Apps for your projects

[@Collab365]

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[@sandipthakur417]

This is a great video, easy and quick to understand. This helped me creating a feedback tracker in no time. :)

[@Collab365]

Glad it helped!

[@daniellapcosta]

Great video. Thank you!!! When the timer reaches 1 minute, the time stop in the app.

[@TradeitUkgroup]

Change the 'Duration' value of the timer. Default is 60 seconds; value is in milliseconds; max is 24hrs

[@carlw]

@@TradeitUkgroup Yes, but it behooves one to figure out why msft would default a timer to 60sec??? I say they should mind their business and leave at the max, or allow it to be empty.

[@sabinef2872]

Thank you so much for this video. Awesome!!! Easy to follow along. The Timer App I created is working 😀

[@fabriciocarranza7044]

Excellent video, thanks for teaching

[@badimbli]

Very well explained!!!! Thanks!

[@ayyboii8108]

You are awesome!!!! Thank you so much for this video 🥺🙏🏽🇿🇦

[@Collab365]

You are so welcome!

[@mybestpractices7877]

Nicely explained. Thank you

[@pucca9090]

Thanks. Great guide. It’s very useful

[@RockingMark]

This timer works great and is fantastic. But, how do I get the Time Spent Column on the sharepoint list, to not display zero if it is less than 1 minute between pressing Start and Stop??

[@andreaskarlsson5107]

Thanks! This was great for me that never programmed anything before and just want to have an app like this! Although, I'm having a problem that no choice is selected in the "Project" column in the sharepoint list when I have selected it in the app. What could I be doing wrong? Everything else is working.

[@TimRiley-m5w]

Great Video, Thank you for taking the time to post this. Could this be done using Dataverse data instead of Sharepoint List?

[@TimRiley-m5w]

Also, Would this only work if the app is left open? What would happen if the app was closed once the timer has started?

[@Collab365]

Absolutely. It's rely just about connecting to date wherever it is. The syntax for Dataverse work is slightly different but its not too hard to figure out.

[@Collab365]

There is an issue with knowing about the times when opened and closed when the app is effectively killed off in memory. There are workarounds but we haven't got a video on those yet.

[@TimRiley-m5w]

@@Collab365 I'd be first inline for that one. My alternative is to have a two separate forms, one to start and one to finish linked by the primary key (A scanned QR code in my case) and then i plan to use a roll up column to calculate them, referencing the user email and qr code.

[@Collab365]

@TimRiley-m5w new video incoming on Sunday evening for one solution we have found to the problem. Interested in your thoughts and whether you'd want to see how we've done parts of this. Nothing too complex, just a rudimentary 'state' saved to the SharePoint list so it knows if the app has crashed or been closed during a time recording activity.

[@travishodges6739]

Hey mate, really helpful tutorial. If i wanted to add a comment section that was a free text field in the app that pulled through to a comment column in share point list how and where would i code?

[@samueladityawirawan3334]

Thanks a lot. This really helps me. How do we code the timer so it could show us the exact progression time?

[@Collab365]

There are some limitations with Timers that prevent 100% accuracy that youll notice when playing around with them such as the app itself timing out when the screen sleeps.

[@katrientjeoeyen3679]

Hi, Thanks for the video, It really helps! I have 1 issue, I followed all the steps, but it always closes the last item when i click the stop button, and not the item ID that I'm editing.

[@TheOlivertabin]

Hello. Is there a way to add a "pause function" for this?

[@lalit3153]

Thanks......Can u please add the Pop up for Project name as it is mandatory to be updated before start time and also can how can we pool Manager name for the user...

[@ramsree20]

Hi ,thanks for your video! Is there a way to track PC idle time (no key strokes or mouse click time) in power apps? Please suggest

[@Collab365]

Unfortunately, there is no way to retrieve feedback about devices your apps are being run on. The only way around this would be to start and reset a timer when a control in your app is selected. Then, use that to control when the app is being interacted with.

[@Docsson001]

Any idea why hitting the stop button creates a new row on SharePoint vs updating the existing row ?

[@eversonrafael8174]

Thanks a lot. It's very good 👍

[@Collab365]

Thanks that is great to hear - let us know if you manage to use similar in one of your apps?

[@a.d8055]

Good video. But this only works with one employee.

[@duminihewage1411]

Cant we do start n end multiple projects at d same time?

[@KaranAkula]

That's a great information, and can you also explain me if my SharePoint list have list of activities for each employee in a team has to get their activities to display on the form and if they select to work any activity then when they hit start end buttons then it has to capture the duration for that activity they spent in the SharePoint end time field, will you keep posted one on that?

[@dankiely3394]

Just select a choice field from the list and enter the choice fields like you would for the projects. The choice field can be populated with general tasks. When you create the powerapp click on the gallery display and then insert label. Go to the right properties column and click edit and them add the label by selecting it from the list. It's something like that. I can't really recall the names of options by memory. You could also have it add a single line of text for when they need to select other and give unique descriptor.

[@mardithpascua8112]

Can the timer text value start from a specific count down like started from Duration

[@liltriqs]

Hi sir i keep getting an error in the formula for the display mode, below is what i have, exactly as yours. Can you help? If(varNewItem.'Active Session' = false, DisplayMode.Disabled,edit)

[@dkfresh6656]

try - If(varNewItem.'Active Session' = true, DisplayMode.Disabled, DisplayMode.Edit)

[@jessicaorr2650]

I had the same error, I changed to this >> If(varNewItem.'Active ' = false, DisplayMode.Disabled,DisplayMode.Edit)

[@APBITEMS]

Hello Colab365, thanks for this awesome video! I have a very specific question and I hope I can get some insight and help from you if possible! Our company has a manual-entry form that was made in Power Apps , and recently we wanted to optimize it and track the time for how long a specific task is completed in. Our app consists of multiple buttons , so I tried putting your patch function into our button that enables a user to enter a new form, but I cant get the data from the form itself ( so the data the user needs to fill in) , I just get a new blank record in my sharepoint list with a start time and when I press submit, with the end time and the time spent as the difference between the two. My main goal is to patch and collect the data in the form ,as well as get the time difference between the start and the end time of the task (calculating the time spend) Is there a possible and an easy fix for this kind of problem? Looking forward to more videos like this!

[@designerphotography1581]

Did you ever find the solution? I'm having the same issue 😊

[@kamalm9712]

But however once the app is refreshed the checkin button will get auto enabled, so it is not taking or loading previous active session

[@elbestanqueco731]

Hi, sir! Thank you for the very detailed walkthrough. I just want to ask if I enrolled to the program, will I be able to enhance this tool you shared so we can use it at work? Let me know. Thanks!

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[@ricardogmzglez]

Hey there! Great video! However, I have a question: How can I "Stop" the Timer from running and reset the clock to zero (also have that record placed into the SharePoint lists I had previously connected my database to) as soon as there is No Internet Connection (while doing use of Desktop). As, I have only made this available to be at Desktop and not for Mobile usage. I tried the Connection.Connected but whenever I unplug my Ethernet cable, clock continues running and no "Stop" was recorded into database. I hope anyone can help me out! Thanks in advance!

[@PowerPlatformDiv]

Is any possibility we get user gps location every time once user punch-in OUT?

[@FrotteeLoewe]

I want to use a timer on multiple screens. I want to reset and restart the timer on some pages. Unfortunately, I can't manage to use the timer with a global variable. Can someone help?

[@terrancebrown777]

I'm not seeing any projects in my drop down menu it is blank

[@GregNow]

Ok, so there is quite few accounting software solutions that have a kiosk where I can track log in log-out to the shop by employees, but I am looking for solutions that work on small building sites. I want to have log in and Log out times of workers. Perhaps one screen in the app that I can see who is on the job site at a given time and what are the attributes of that worker and maybe if they received induction or so I know that we have a fire marshal, first aider etc., perhaps the person who received training in access platform assembly or simply a visitor like an architect. I guess this would have to be pulled out from some data source (list?!) Also, in case of fire, I can see who is at the assembly point and how many people logged in to the site that day. So maybe one screen with lig i. Log out and a current number of people on site. Perhaps they can use QR code cards so it's easy to enter all that info and keep log of it After having this information, I would like to be able to pull out that data to create weekly time sheets per worker. And who knows, maybe use power automation to let them know their hours on Fridays with some report or keep track of project hours. It feels like the benefits can be endless How difficult is it to do that?

[@Jay-pm5ql]

can you make it like when the time runs out there's a beep sound

[@Collab365]

Unsure at the moment, I'd need to look into that.

[@davidjuliovergaramarin2500]

Fantástico para el control de procesos

[@cctechnology1085]

Thanks!!

[@fuertesbs]

excellent demonstration, every step was exact. too useful