The logic that used to work doesn't work now

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Hi,

I have a situation where I use a condition to check if the form has the required fields completed.

If(formName.Valid, 'run flows', false)

it used to work so that when the user did not enter the required data in the form, nothing happened, only the red controls with missing information were highlighted. If everything was ok, flow was started, which saved data to the sharepoint list.

Has anything changed recently in how form.valid works?

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mmollet 3,187 on at

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I dont use forms usually as I just make my own and use patch statements but you could try to use this:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-validate

That being said I just checked my apps that use '.Valid' and they all seem to be working properly. Can you share an image of the error maybe? Here is my code for what I checked: If(Form1_1.Valid, SubmitForm(Form1_1)); It is standard practice to not put anything after submitform call but rather to put any functions that should be executed after it in the forms OnSuccess property to be executed when it is successfully submitted.

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Hi @ShockWave21,

Is the aim to only run the flows when the Form record has successfully been submitted? In that case, running the flows in the OnSuccess of the Form control would be preferred.

To my knowledge the Form.Valid property has not changed, it might be beneficial to double check all of the DataCard Required properties of the fields you'd expect to not be blank (should be true).

If this solves your question, would you be so kind as to accept it as a solution.

Thanks!

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@LaurensM @mmollet I can't use SubmitForm in my case because all save actions happen in flow.

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LaurensM 12,516 Moderator on at

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Hi @ShockWave21,

I don't use Forms that often, but to my knowledge the validation (red error messages) only takes place when you actually try to submit the form via SubmitForm() (affected by the Required property). This functionality can be changed, by manually adjusting the visible properties of those error labels or by adding custom errorlogging. FormName.Valid will return a true or false value depending on the validity of the form datacard values.

I don't expect this to be best practice, but an easy ('lazy' 😉) way of validating the form could be:

If( formName.Valid, 'run flows', //Trigger error messages by trying to submit invalid data SubmitForm(formName) )

That being said, there are a lot of ways of validating data before pressing the button - which I would highly recommend from a UI/UX and best practice standpoint over the code above. The following guides should provide some more insight into the possibilities:

Form Data Validation (Blog by @mdevaney)

Form validation (YouTube)

If this solves your question, would you be so kind as to accept it as a solution.

Thanks!

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