Hello,
Hate to post here but I'm about 3 hours, 20 Bing searches, 3 YouTube videos into this and I just can't seem to get any traction.
I have a form that wants to be laid out like this—two columns (wide left, narrow right) with Title and Instructions on the left (wide values); and Analyst, Supervisor, Recipients, CC Recipients on the right (narrow values).
After a couple of hours of messing around, I've got this:
I can't get the data cards in the columns that I want them to be in.
I've turned snap on and off, tried arranging things in a single column, 2 columns, 12 columns.
Manually dragging a data control to the desired position doesn't work. Sometimes I can get it to change columns, but when it does it disrupts the positions of the other elements.
X and Y positioning Data Card values don't seem to work. I watched one video where they said the X and Y values don't do anything; another where the X value is the column and the Y value is the position of the item in that column. X and Y values don't persist and change automatically. It remains a mystery.
I've tried dragging bits of the form outside of the form container. That doesn't seem to work.
At times the height values of a data card will suddenly jump up occupy the entire form height; sometimes data cards seem to be re-sizeable, sometimes not. Resizing a data card seems to sometimes work, but then after a while the values will jump back to some unknown value.
I've tried changing the column order on the underlying SharePoint list to maybe get them generally in the order I want, but that doesn't really address the problem (grasping at straws a lot today).
I've tried looking for objects inside the data card that might be causing it to be un-re-sizeable (as suggested in one or two of the blog posts), but nothing seems more than a few pixels away from the top (doesn't seem like there's anything that would cause it to jump up to full height).
I've tried throwing the form away and adding it again, but I always end up in the same place.
Surely there must be something obvious and elementary that I'm just messing up, but I can't seem to figure out what.
I know how to do thing in HTML and CSS but HTML and CSS doesn't seem to apply to Power Apps except at a very abstract level.
Any tips or guidance here would be much appreciated. Thanks. Happy Thanksgiving.