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Real Time Notifications

I'm building a canvas app that is my group is using to transition away from Microsoft Access. One feature the users really liked from Access was a 'real time' pop up that gave them relevant information. Usually this is centered around an event with a Datetime for either start or end. I believe in Access this was accomplished by running a check every 3 minutes for events (which are now stored in a few different SharePoint list, nothing premium here) which have a Start Time or End Time in the next 3 minutes. I'm trying to accomplish the same thing in Power Apps. I'm thinking of running a timer, but once the user navigates away from the screen the timer is running on, will the time continue to count down? Will the code execute when the timer runs out? I'm also thinking through if 3 minutes is the right amount of time. The timer will start when the user launches the app, and execute every 3 minutes, which means whatever code goes in there will check multiple SharePoint lists 20 times per hour.

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