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Hi There,

In PowerApps, I have a screen with a Tab List, Table and a Form. My tabs consist of the Approval Status (Approved, Declined and Pending). What I'm trying to achieve is, when I click on the Approved or Declined tab then click on an item in the table, I would like the form to show as read-only. If it's the Pending tab then the form should be on Edit mode.

I have written the code below, thinking that it's correct because it's not giving any errors but any tab I clicked on, just opens in Edit mode.

ResetForm(Form2_1);
If(
    TabList1.Selected.Value = "Pending",
    varFormmode = FormMode.Edit,
    varFormmode = FormMode.View
);
Set(
    varShowForm,
    true
);
 
Any suggestions please?

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WarrenBelz 153,084 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi CU16101721-1

The issue is that setting a Variable (which I assume you are applying the the Default Mode) does not trigger a form mode change. You are better setting the DisplayMode of a Data Card
If( TabList1.Selected.Value = "Pending" && YourFormName.Mode <> FormMode.View, DisplayMode.Edit, DisplayMode.View, );

then set the other Data Card's DisplayMode to
YourFirstDataCardName.DisplayMode

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CU16101721-1 84 on at

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Hi Warren, thank you for the response.

Applying to the Data Card will not work because I want the whole form to be View only if Tab List <> Pending.

In my scenario, the user clicks on a Tab (Approved, Declined, Pending) then the Table will populate the list of items. From there, the user can click on any of the item and a form pops out.

I tried to apply my code to the OnSelect property of the Table.

I hope I explained it better this time, so sorry for the confusion.

Thanks again,

MT

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Hello,

I have a similar situation I am working on now. You should be able to achieve this by setting a variable when you click on the tabs. Set the OnSelect property of each button to set a value to a variable. For the 2 that are read only, set your variable to false and then set it to true for the one that should go into edit mode. For the DefaultMode property of your form, add a condition something like:

If(myvariable=true,FormMode.Edit,FormMode.View)

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Nirav Raval (Akira28) 153 Moderator on at

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Hi CU16101721-1 ,

Can you try the below code, hope it works 🤞

Add on the form property > Mode

If(
TabList1.Selected.Value = "Pending",
FormMode.Edit,
FormMode.View
)

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CU16101721-1 84 on at

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Thank you so much, Nirav! Your solution worked :)

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