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Saving and displaying multi-choice Combo Box in a Text field
It is well documented how to save the contents of a multi-select combo box to a Single Line of Text field, but not so how to successfully get the content back into the DefaultSelectedItems of the control. I will do two examples here (both related) – one on a Choice field and the other on a list of items. Items referenced as follows Choice field Items Update of Data Card DefaultSelectedItems List Field Next is a list based on a field from another List) – I will refer to the elements as follows Items Update of Data Card DefaultSelectedItems and that is about the extent of the process. I hope this is useful to you.
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Power Apps Controls and their References
Contents General When you start your Power Apps journey and start working with controls and their inputs and output references, there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding that can be quite easily alleviated, saving you both time and potential errors. Initially, you had probably “left them alone” with the settings Power Apps provides when they were created, used SubmitForm() to save the data and all worked exactly as you expected. Now you are needing to refer to them in code and possibly change the settings in the control itself to meet your needs. All of this should not be overwhelming if you take a little time to understand a…
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Starting your app – good practices
Planning your controls Now you have read my blog on Data Structure and have a great one in place, you are ready to get in and construct your app. You have put in a gallery and a form and are ready to write some code. What else do you have to do? Firstly, planning to lay a foundation for your app, you need to know “where everything is”. You will have to refer to all of your controls (screens, galleries, forms, controls) constantly in your code. You are assisted in this endeavor by the built-in IntelliSense function, which “predicts” what you might want to type and displays it in a…