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Hello, nice people ! I am very new to PowerApps so bear with me! I am trying to create a quiz type form  in PowerApps canvas. (but not exactly a quiz) where there will be questions and user will select an answer out of 3 different options. I am not willing to do anything fancy. To keep it simple , I have created a list using the quiz questions as Column name (header in excel). Later, I changed the column type to 'choice' and set the options as choice options. Then in the app, I created a form and linked to the list as the data source of the form. So far so good. But in the Data Cards, while the Data Card Keys are showing the quiz questions aka column names as I intended, the Data Card Value(s) are not showing the options. There is a dropdown but instead of my options that I placed in the list, the dropdown is showing ' Find Items' and upon clicking in app preview, its showing options like 'item 1', 'item 2' etc. etc. I can't find where have i made a mistake. Thanks for your help. 

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    Fredrik_A Profile Picture
    3,644 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hello @Anonymous ,

     

    Please change the following in your dropdowns:

     

    StretchFredrik_0-1661764130962.png

     

    If this solved your issue please mark your post as Solved. 
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    Nogueira1306 Profile Picture
    7,390 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Check what you have there:

    Nogueira1306_0-1661764017116.png

     

     

    If you need additional help please tag me in your reply and please like my reply.
    If my reply provided you with a solution, pleased mark it as a solution ✔️!

    Best regards,

    Gonçalo Nogueira

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi, @StretchFredrik . Your solution worked but there is still a little problem. An extra option is being shown where the users can type anything they want. I don't want this. I have already turned off 'can add values manually" in the column settings of the list. What more I can do? 

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi, @Nogueira1306   Your solution worked but there is still a little problem. An extra option is being shown where the users can type anything they want. I don't want this. I have already turned off 'can add values manually" in the column settings of the list. What more I can do? 

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    Nogueira1306 Profile Picture
    7,390 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Nogueira1306_0-1661770258500.png

     

    You have 2 options there:

     

    1. Allow multi select

    2. Allow search

     

    Remove search option, I think that´s it

     

    If you need additional help please tag me in your reply and please like my reply.
    If my reply provided you with a solution, pleased mark it as a solution ✔️!

    Best regards,

    Gonçalo Nogueira

    Check my LinkedIn!

    My website!

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    @Nogueira1306 @StretchFredrik Thank you both for your quick and clear response. Worked great. I might need some additional help. I have to do both of this steps individually for every data card , one by one. I have a very large number of data card. is there a way I can change this settings for all data cards in the form at once? Appreciate your help. 

    Point 2: Before the user click a dropdown to answer a quiz questions, the dropdown is showing 'select items'. I have set the default answer to be blank. but still the 'select items' is showing. Although this does not create any problem, it doesn't look good either. How to get rid of this 'select items'? 


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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi, @Nogueira1306 Sorry to bother you again. but is there a solution to the problem I mentioned in the previous message? Manually editing one by one is very exhausting , I hope you understand

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