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So I have been working on this app, and want to know if there is a way to capture the data in side of a container instead of having to list each item inside of the container. So in the code below this is for my submit button, it gathers all of the data in the boxes and submits it to an email. But I am going to have a huge list of about 30 items in that container on the right-hand side of the screen (see picture below), so instead of having to listout each one of those 30 checkboxes that will be there, can I just put them all inside of the container, and just select the container and the items inside of the container that are checked and pull that information into an email. The idea here is to trim up the code instead of having 30 additional entries in the submit button code.

Office365Outlook.SendEmailV2(
HS_txtinp_Email.Text,
"IT Requirements Request",
HS_txtlbl_EmployeeInformation &
" " &
"Employee Name: " & HS_txtinp_EmployeeName.Text &
" Department: " & HS_txtinp_Department.Text &
" Job Title: " & HS_txtinp_JobTitle.Text &
" Start Date: " & HS_dp_StartDate &
" Cost Center: " & HS_dd_CostCenter.Selected.Value &
" Location: " & HS_dd_Location.Selected.Value &
" " &
HS_txtlbl_Equipment &
" " &
" No Equipment Needed: " & HS_cb_NoEquipmentNeeded &
" Headset: " & HS_dd_Headset.Selected.Value &
" Desktop/Laptop: " & HS_dd_WorkstationSetup.Selected.Value &
" VPN Access: " & HS_dd_VPNAccess.Selected.Value &
" Monitors: " & HS_dd_Monitors.Selected.Value &
" Phone: " & HS_dd_Phone.Selected.Value &
" Applications/Licenses: "

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Building Power Apps

Hello @JaredB

Complete understand your situation but in my experience, since you have a lot of fields, that would basically mean that you'll need to distinctly identify them as what you are doing now. When you put controls within that container, the only thing that happened there is you have one container to move them around. You can point to the container as a Parent of the controls inside it but, you cannot point directly to these controls as a child of the container.

Even in non-low-code dev, your way of making the mail would still be the same.

Just one thought, you might want to move that body content to a HtmlText control so that you can visualize the email in advance and then use that HtmlText.HtmlText value as the body of the email. You can just hide this control and make it visible as reference for your troubleshooting later.

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