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I have a dropdown with the following properties:

Items = Choices('AWI Quality')

Default = galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'AWI Quality'.Value

Whereas 'AWI Quality' is a Choice field in a Dataverse table and galBidsTakeoffOpenBS is the name of the gallery that I am using to select the desired record.

The Default property registers an "Expected Text Value" error when typed as above. I have also tried changing Default to:

galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'AWI Quality'
text(galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'AWI Quality'.Value)
text(galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'AWI Quality')

but none of these work.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here. I have a few other dropdowns on the same app page. In all of those instances, I have the Default set to the equivalent of galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'AWI Quality' and it works fine. So I'm not sure what the issue is with this one.

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I'm assuming you want to set the default drop down value to "AWI Quality".
If so just add In the Default property add only "AWI Quality". Let me know

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No, that's not it. I probably wasn't clear. But the default property is set to the AWI Quality field from the "selected" item from a gallery. The "Expected Text Value" error is occurring in the Default property and I'm not able to insert a text like "AWI Quality" because that is not an option based on the Choices in the Items property. I hope that helps clarify the issue.

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Hi @powerwood,

Could you please share a bit more about the scenario?

Do you want to set the Default value of a Dropdown based on the galBidsTakeoffOpenBS selected?

I have a test for you, and it works well as below.

Dropdown Items:

Choices('Species2 ')

Dropdown Default:

galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'Species2 '

Note that the 'Species2 ' is the Choice column in my scenario.

In addition, please confirm that if you have a Dropdown box or a Combo Box, if you have a Combo Box, you should set the DefaultSelectedItems rather than the Default property.

If it could not solve you issue, please provide more details about your Dropdown.

Regards,

Qi

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@v-qiaqi-msft ,

Thank you for the help. The scenario that you recommend is exactly how I have it setup. The Dropdown Items are set to Choices('AWI Quality') and the Dropdown Default is set to Gallery.selected.'AWI Quality'.

I can confirm that it is in fact a Dropdown and not a Combo Box.

Here is a screenshot of the exact error:

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I was able to fix this issue by changing the control to a Combo Box from a Dropdown.

Items = Choices(Bids.'AWI Quality')
DefaultSelectedItems = galBidsTakeoffOpenBS.Selected.'AWI Quality'

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