Like and Support Buttons for Sharepoint Items in PowerApps

Question

So, essentially I have a Sharepoint list full of different items, what I want to do is provide a PowerApps plug-in with like and support buttons. When a user then hits the like button against a selected list item I want to check if they have already liked that item, if they have, do nothing, if they haven't then I want the like button to add 1 to it's current count. To make things a bit more complicated I don't want the users to actually have editable access to this SharePoint list (It would be ideal if I could just give them editable access to the likes column but SharePoint seems to only allow/deny editable access at the list level?). I am relatively new to PowerApps and as such any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Owen

I have had a look on StackOverflow for a while now and have tried a few different solutions for like buttons but I haven't been able to find one related to SharePoint lists meeting the same checking requirements above.

Answer 1

As I understood, you want to create a counter.

Refer in PowerApps Forum.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Add-a-counter-to-a-column-with-a-button-function-in-PowerApps/m-p/53600#M22258

Other is check if they have already liked that item: Using Microsoft Flow to handle logic of this. I think you also have license of MS Flow

Good luck!

Answer 2

Although this is an older thread, I think this is what you're looking for. SharePoint has an inbuilt feature to enable likes/rating on a list or document library.

Please check out the following link.
https://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-rate-and-like-items-and-documents-in-sharepoint/