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I have an app that has a card with just a label and a button, when you first come into the app the button is disabled until the user hits edit. I had to add a new card and button, and I changed card displaymode DisplayMode.Edit and button displaymode DisplayMode.Edit, just like my other cards. But the button is always editable. Is there a difference with button controls?

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The Displaymode setting for the button controls the state of the button. Its either Edit, Disabled, or View. If you physically add a button to the Canvas it will default to Displaymode.Edit. But if you add a card that contains a button it may default to something else. Setting the displaymode to reflect what is going on in the app is a common validation technique. For example, a button will default to Displaymode.Disabled but when you fill in a specific required field the Displaymode is changed to Displaymode.Edit. That changes whether the button can be pressed or not and also changes the way it looks.

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To fix a button inside a Power Apps form card that stays active when it shouldn't, change the button's DisplayMode property to:
Parent.DisplayMode
Why this works: Manually added controls don't automatically inherit the form's state. Referencing Parent.DisplayMode forces the button to sync perfectly with the Edit, View, or Disabled mode of the container card and the overall form.

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So, my issue is that I need this button to disabled when I am in View mode and change to editable when users click the edit button. I have 3 other buttons that work fine and all have the card DisplayMode: DisplayMode.Edit and button DisplayMode:DisplayMode.Edit. This is how the other 3 buttons are set up and should work. I have tried to change my new button to DisplayMode: Parent.DisplayMode
and button DisplayMode:Parent.DisplayMode, but this does nothing and the button is always editable. The card is within the form, and the form has not changed on the parent level so not sure how to get the button to behave like the other ones.

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Setting it to Parent.Displaymode will just reflect the displaymode of the card. Since in your case that is set to edit it won't do anything. Instead set a variable in the onSelect of the Edit button that stores a boolean showing that it was clicked. Then use an IF() in the displaymode property of the button to set it to displaymode.Edit if that variable is true and displaymode.Disabled if the variable is false. Make sure you default the variable to false when the app starts or the screen onVisible. Make sure you make provision to set it back to false when you want it to be disabled again.

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