web

You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.

Power Platform CommunityForums Power Apps - Building Power Apps Toggle switch with ano...

Power Apps - Building Power Apps

Answered

Toggle switch with another button OnSelect (on save) (SharePoint list)

Like (0) Share

Report

Report

Posted on 26 Apr 2019 19:13:14 by GrischkePro

285

How can I toggle a switch (or tick a checkbox) with another button?

I need a hidden Toggle (Yes/No), by default it's OFF. I want another button, that will toggle the switch to ON and then submits the form.

How can I achieve this?

Many thanks

Categories:

I have the same question (0)

All responses Img

All responses (5)

Answers Img

Answers (1)

ITDeveloper 2 on 15 Mar 2024 at 23:26:07

Like (0)

Report
Re: Toggle switch with another button OnSelect (on save) (SharePoint list)

What if I already have another function for the default property of the toggle?
What should I do to click on a hidden toggle from an icon?
I mean I have this code on that property:
If( !IsEmpty( CheckInData ) && !(lbl_Home_Location.Text = "You aren't at work!"), true, false )

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
daniel_w 15 on 20 Sep 2021 at 07:16:43

Like (0)

Report

Re: Toggle switch with another button OnSelect (on save) (SharePoint list)

Hi Randy,

This was very useful information about references to off-screen controls.

I was using the OnCheck property of a toggle on Screen1 to drive some behaviour. The Default property of the toggle Or'd together the outputs of two components, one on Screen1 and the other on Screen2.

In PowerApps Studio, activating the component on Screen2 would trigger the OnCheck behaviour as expected. However doing the same when launching the App from its weblink, or embedding in Teams would not trigger the toggle's OnCheck behaviour.

Per your suggestion, adding a label to Screen2 which referenced the toggle on Screen1 resolved the issue.

Do you have a link to any documentation which describes how PowerApp handles offscreen controls? I haven't been able to find any myself.

Thanks,

Dan.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Community Power Pla... on 23 Oct 2019 at 09:54:08

Like (0)

Report

Re: Toggle switch with another button OnSelect (on save) (SharePoint list)

Thanks this is very helpful

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
GrischkePro 285 on 26 Apr 2019 at 19:45:12

Like (1)

Report

Re: Toggle switch with another button OnSelect (on save) (SharePoint list)

@RandyHayes

This is brilliant! I was almost there, just didn't know where to apply the variable 🙂

FYI, I needed to toggle it "on save" without the user knowing about it, so that Flow knows what to do next 😉

Thank you very much!

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Verified answer

RandyHayes 76,287 Super User 2024 Season 1 on 26 Apr 2019 at 19:32:39

Like (6)

Report

Re: Toggle switch with another button OnSelect (on save) (SharePoint list)

@GrischkePro

One quick way to do this is the use of a variable.

In your Button OnSelect action use a formula such as this:

Set(setToggle, true)

Then on your Default property of the Toggle control, set this formula:

setToggle

If you are using the toggle to then perform an action in the "OnCheck" action of the control, then do your formula, and then at the end, place a Set(setToggle, false) to reset the toggle back so that it can be "called" again.

This is a very useful pattern to do with toggle controls. HOWEVER, there is one word of warning...

If you put your toggle control on another screen, you need to at least reference the Toggle Control on the screen where your button is. You can do that simply enough with a non-visible label with the text property set to yourToggleName.Value

This will work perfectly from any screen (as long as you have a referencing "dummy label").

I hope this is helpful for you.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No