OnSelect doesn't fire when highlighting text

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Hi everyone, I think I've found a bug in the datacardvalue OnSelect event.

For all of my controls I have an OnSelect event that saves the controls value before editing for audit trail purposes:

OnSelect --> UpdateContext({varAuditPreviousValue:DataCardValue16.Text});

This code works fine when you click into the cell before deleting and editing, but if you highlight the value text without first clicking into the cell, varAuditPreviousValue stays blank. If you click into the cell first, and then either backspace or highlight the text before editing, everything works as intended.

I can instruct the users to always click into the cell first, but that leaves a big gap in terms of audit trail. Can anyone think of a way to force the OnSelect event to fire?

Thank you and happy Friday!

-Mike

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This might be an insane idea... but what if you put a button (fully transparent) in front of the text box that would make the user have to click "in" the field thus triggering the update context action from the on click event, and set the button visibility equal to (IsBlank(varAuditPreviousValue) && !IsBlank(DataCardValue16.Text)) || IsBlank(DataCardValue16.Text). That way if the field is blank, then there's no need to block prior to getting the previous value, and if it has a value, it's only editable once the variable has been set... I feel like this could work... let me know if you try it and if you're able to get the functionality you were hoping for.

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Not sure what control you are using in the Form DataCard, but I'm guessing it is a TextInput control. If so, I posted a related issue here displaying the behavior. **Bug with TextInput**: OnSelect not firing when users click/drag to select text (powerplatform.com)

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