How i can know which navigation component link the user clicked

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I have a navigation component to build a left hand side menu for my app, now inside the app on start i added the menu items, something as follow:-

ClearCollect(
    MenuItems,
    Table(
    
    {
        ID: 24,
        HMenuLbl: "Work Orders List",
        Screen: 'Work Orders List',
        Icon: Icon.Alarm,
        HSubMenuVisible: false
    },
    {
        ID: 25,
        HMenuLbl: "Limits",
        Screen: 'Tickets Limit List',
        Icon: Icon.Alarm,
        HSubMenuVisible: false
    },
    
    {
        ID: 35,
        HMenuLbl: "New & Assigned Cleaning Work Orders",
        Screen: 'Work Orders List',
        Icon: Icon.ListScrollWatchlist,
        HSubMenuVisible: false
    }
    )
);
 
 
now as shown above I have 2 navigation items which take to the same screen (Work Orders list). so how i can know which menu item the user actually clicked on? as i need to set some global variables on each click..

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Kalathiya 2,316 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @johnjohnPter,

Assuming you're displaying the menu items in a gallery, just set a variable on the gallery items OnSelect:

Set(gblSelectedMenu, ThisItem)

you can handle the navigation directly in the Gallery's On Select using an If or Switch statement, for example:

Put below code on Gallery on select property:

Set(gblSelectedMenu, ThisItem); Switch( ThisItem.HMenuLbl, "Work Orders List", Navigate(Screen1), "Limits", Navigate(Screen2), "New & Assigned Cleaning Work Orders", Navigate(Screen3) )

You can replace Screen1, Screen2, Screen3, etc. with your actual screen name. This way you're storing the clicked menu item first and then using HMenuLbl in a Switch() statement to handle the navigation.

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@Kalathiya thanks for your reply. but i am not using a gallery i am using a navigation component as follow to show the left side menu :-

similar to this appraoch Power Apps Navigation Menu Component - Matthew Devaney

and here is the component:-

now i can say Set(Navigation Component_1.SelectedMenuItem) which will return the number of the item, but i have different Navigation Component on each screen, so i can not know which one the user click on. and i have 35 screen , which means 35 navigation component controls

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Kalathiya 2,316 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @johnjohnPter,

First select the component and enable the "Access app Scope".

then you can able to write the above code on Menu - component.

For example:

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@Kalathiya i do not see the option to "Access App scope"

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Hello @johnjohnPter,

Go to Component -> Select your menu component - on left side property you can able to find the "Access App scope"

Else, could you please select the component and share the screenshot of your screen..

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@Kalathiya here is the settings , thanks again for your help

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Hello @johnjohnPter,

I have just reviewed the Microsoft blog, and it mentions that if you are using a Component Library, the Access App Scope option is not available unless it is enabled at the Component Library level.

Could you please try creating a new component and check whether the Access App Scope option is available?

basically use of this property is that it allows you to access variables, collections, and other app level data within the component.

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Hi johnjohnPter,

Great question, and Kalathiya's Switch approach is spot on! To add a bit more context from the Microsoft Learn docs:

The standard pattern for tracking which menu item was selected is to use a global variable set in the gallery's OnSelect, then use the Navigate function to route to the appropriate screen.

If you also want to pass context data to the target screen (for example, the selected menu item ID or label), you can pass it as a screen parameter using Navigate. According to the Navigate function docs, you can pass a record of named values to the screen:

Navigate(Screen1, ScreenTransition.None, {selectedMenu: ThisItem.HMenuLbl})

The receiving screen can then read the value using the Param() function or directly from the passed record, depending on how the app is structured.

One additional tip if you are building this as a reusable component in a Component Library: the Navigate function cannot be called directly inside a component unless the Access App Scope property is enabled on the component. This setting is available in the component's properties and must be turned on explicitly at the component library level. Without it, navigation calls inside the component will fail.

References:

- Back and Navigate functions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-navigate

- Component library: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/component-library

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