Saving and Loading Data

Collections are the workhorse of Power Apps—lightweight, flexible, and perfect for shaping data on the client side. Whether you’re caching records for performance or assembling data the user hasn’t saved yet, everything starts with knowing how to load information into a collection and how to persist it back out. This article walks through the essential patterns for saving and retrieving data using collections so your apps stay fast, predictable, and easy to maintain.


Adding Data
Collection Commands
Saving and Loading Data

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The name of the file is arbitrary, it will create a text file on your device and save the data locally.

In this example, 'Meeting' is the name of the Collection that we're working with

SaveData(Meeting,"MeetingFile")

LoadData(Meeting,"MeetingFile")

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