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Backing it Up Before you Delete Power BI Records

While doing Power Apps training with Pragmatic Works, I usually have a common request after students learn that they can delete records.  Someone will usually state they like the usability of the delete function, but are scared to put a delete button on the screen.  Their concern is someone will hit it by mistake and then the record will be gone forever.   There are a few ways to fix this issue.    I did a blog/video several weeks ago that shows how to make a pop-up screen to have your end-user click twice before the record is really deleted.  You can check it out here Deleting Is Scary .  In this week's blog/video, I will show you how you can delete a record from the original source, but then back it up in another data source. To achieve our solution today we will need to meet the following objectives: *   Have two separate data sources that will contain a table/list with the same number of columns, column headers, data types, etc. * Dis...