Refresh section on field change

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Posted on by Ami K

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Hi everyone,

I have a Power Automate Flow which updates a field on a custom dataverse table.

Could anyone share the JS syntax for automatically refreshing the section or page when that field changes? The reason I think I would need to refresh the section/page (the equivalent of clicking the Refresh button) is that I have an embedded canvas app in a section which needs to be updated when the field value changes.

My thinking is that I could place the field in a different section and run the JS function on the OnChange property against it.

best regards,

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Refresh section on field change

I came up with a messy workaround using the OnChange event of the control. It triggers a save when the field is 'Dirty' which in turn triggers the flow, then run through a few nested setTimeout's and use showProgressIndicator to restrict/notify the user. I just picked a timeout value I was sure would cover the flow run time, but this is obviously not guaranteed for long flows.

function SaveFormOnChangeIfDirty(primaryControl, fieldName, interval) {
var formContext = primaryControl.getFormContext();
var field = formContext.getAttribute(fieldName);
if (field.getIsDirty() && field.getValue() != null) {
formContext.data.save();
Xrm.Utility.showProgressIndicator("Running flows and updating data...");
setTimeout(function() {
formContext.data.refresh();
Xrm.Utility.closeProgressIndicator();
}, interval);
}
}
Ami K 100 on at

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RE: Refresh section on field change

Eiken Thank you for the solution. Unfortunately, although the function triggers perfectly when changing a field inside the form, it seems a javascript function cannot trigger when a field has been changed by an external connector (in this case, Power Automate).

There is a Power Automate flow which updates that field. In the video below, you can see the event triggers when I change the field directly inside the form, but the event does not trigger when a Power Automate Flow changes that field.

I still find your solution very helpful though so I marked as Solved.

If you happen to know if it is indeed possible to trigger the refresh, please let me know.

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RE: Refresh section on field change

Hi,

Please use the following API:

formContext.data.refresh(save).then(successCallback, errorCallback);

Please check the detail of this API.

data.refresh (Client API reference) in model-driven apps - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

Now please refer to my steps.

Edit the refreshpage function.

function refreshpage(e){ var formContext = e.getFormContext(); formContext.data.refresh(true).then(function(result){ alert('Refreshed!!') }); }

Add On change event to the selected field.(Now I choose ""Name")

It works well.