How to configure start screen of a Power Apps

Hello there and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show how you can configure the starting screen when you launch a Power App canvas app.

In a canvas app, by default the starting screen is always the screen at the top of the list of screen in your maker portal. For example, in the below canvas app since the BrowseScreen is at the top in the list of screens, it is the starting screen of the app by default.

However Power Apps has a property named StartScreen in the App object.

This is the place where you can set the StartScreen of the app dynamically. For example, using the below formula I am redirecting the user to the ProfileScreen if the user does not have a profile image. Else I am redirecting the user to the default screen – BrowseScreen.

Remember that if there is any error in the formula of StartScreen, the default screen at the top of the list of screens shall be shown

Hope this helps!
Debajit Dutta