Business Process Flows are a great tool to manage standard processes, they don’t have an out-of-the-box feature to prevent users from moving to previous stages, but some custom code can be added to the Dataverse form to incorporate additional functionality to model-driven apps in power apps.
In this blog, we will show the code required to add this functionality to Business Process Flows in model-driven apps and we will also cover the steps to upload this code and have it fully working!
Step 1. Write JavaScript code
Step 2. Add the code as form Library
Let’s open the Dataverse form where the Business Process Flow restriction will be needed on. Then, we need to go to the JavaScript Libraries, and finally, let’s click on “Add Library”
Click on “New web resource”
In the next pop-up, we can either upload a .JS file or just paste the code directly in the code box. Let’s fill out the remaining fields and finally save and publish
After saving, we will be prompted to select the JavaScript resource we just created. Let’s select and add
Step 3. Add event handler
Click anywhere on the form editing gray area, this will enable the “Events” section.
Let’s click on “Event Handler”
In the next pop-up, let’s select the library we just created and in the function name, let’s indicate the name of the function from step 1. Finally, we need to click on “Done”
Step 4. Test the model-driven app
Open the app and try moving to a previous stage. The pop-up should prevent users setting previous stages as active.
Conclusion
There is not an out-of-the-box feature in the Business Process Flow editor to restrict users from selecting previous stages as active, but model-driven apps can be highly customized using JavaScript libraries with just a few steps! Contact us if you’d like to implement some custom code or functionality in Business Process Flows or Model-driven apps!
