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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...

  While doing Power Apps training with Pragmatic Works, I usually have a common request after students learn 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 .   The method I showcase here will show how you can activate a pop-up screen that overlays your original screen.   This method is not just useful for delete confirmations, but anytime you want to show extra information on your screen without being taken to a new screen.   To achieve our solution today we will need to meet the following objectives:   Create the pop-up screen and all of its components, then GROUP them together Use the function UpdateContext to temporarily create a variable to hold a piece of information, which in our case will be tru...