Get the version number of your app in PowerApps
Have you ever tried to get the version number of your app developed in PowerApps to display in your app?
This version number helps you check that your user is running the right version of your app.
With the following expression you can get the version number of your existing app.
In my case my app is call version and the following expression is used to get the number:
CountRows(PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetAppVersions(First(Filter(PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetApps().value,properties.displayName = "version")).name).value)
!Note! The PowerAppsforAppMakers connector was recently renamed and the following code is th the corrected version of the code:
CountRows(PowerAppsforMakers.GetAppVersions(First(Filter(PowerAppsforMakers.GetApps().value,properties.displayName = "version")).name).value)
This doesn’t work as I applied the line you gave above in a label… “PowerAppsforAppMakers” doesn’t exist. Can you give me some help?
You will need to add a connection to the Power Apps for App Makers connection. If you try to add a connection and search for Makers then you should find it.
Thank you for the fast response. I was able to find the App Makers connection and add it. However, the name has changed from “PowerAppsforAppMakers” to “PowerAppsforMakers”. After applying that change, your function validates with no errors. However, I get nothing for the countrows function. Any further ideas?
Hi Brad.
Looking at the total expression, I would start to split this up and use labels and galleries to display part of the expression. Or withihn the overall expression you can select parts of it . PowerApps will show you a preview of the data.
So where the full expression is:
CountRows(PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetAppVersions(First(Filter(PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetApps().value,properties.displayName = “version”)).name).value)
You could try and check the value of
Filter(PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetApps().value,properties.displayName = “version”)
and then
First(Filter(PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetApps().value,properties.displayName = “version”)).name
Hi Pieter, Thank you again for your quick response!
So for simplicity, I put this line in the App::OnStart method:
ClearCollect(GetApps, PowerAppsforMakers.GetApps().value)
This runs fine and gives me 5 columns (Id, name, properties, tags, type) when I look at my collections. Unfortunately, I get no rows.
I feel like I am missing something basic for this not to work. Any more suggestions?
Thank you,
Brad
Maybe a silly question, but has your app been published?
Not a silly question. Yes, it has been published. When I look at the details of my app and click the Versions tab, I am up to Version 48.
Hi Brad,
I just tested the code again ( I updated the code to use the new Connector name in the post) and for me I’m still getting a single number returned.
It appears PowerAppsForMakers.GetApps() does not get apps constructed from a SharePoint list form (i.e. [SharePoint list view] > Power Apps > Customize forms). Note that what Pieter shares above is a count of the number of versions for an app. This count should match the latest version number given in the version history because the numbers are re-calculated when a prior version is deleted. The real “version” number given by PowerAppsForMakers can be found with the following:
First(Filter(PowerAppsforMakers.GetApps().value, properties.displayName = “[name of your app]”)).properties.appVersion
Note that this doesn’t return a version number, but a version date instead. Also note the slight difference from Pieter’s guidance where he said to use “properties.displayName = ‘version'”. That “version” was placeholder text that needs to be updated per the name of the app being queried.
Thanks Paul
This is great. If we need to extract the latest published version, how would we do it? Can you guide on that?
You can actually use, PowerAppsforAppMakers.GetAppVersions(“App ID”) to extract all versions of your app. It will also include the status like published.