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So it seems default values of a sharepoint list are not getting transfered into powerapps. So when editing a sharepoint list with powerapps the default values are not visible in the form.

There is workaround Like in this thread to manually show the default value. Is there a change with lookup or so to get all the sharepoint lsit default values into a variable?

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RandyHayes 76,297 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Unfortunately default values for columns like Choice, and Date columns are not carried through to PowerApps, other defaults like text columns and number columns do.

This has been a long time running issue.

All of the Defaults (that you can get to with PowerApps) will be in the Defaults function. This is, in a sense, a "variable" of the defaults for a list.

Example, if you had a number column with a default of 10, then Defaults(yourList).yourNumberColumn would show 10

You can also patch the Defaults to add manual defaults such as this for a Date column where you have SharePoint default set to "Todays date".

Patch(Defaults(yourList), {yourDateColumn: Now()})

This would then have the date column with the current date in it.

I hope this is helpful for you.

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TTerholz 4 on at

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Thanks for the helpful answer. I will use your infos to manually patch the missing columns to Defaults(yourList).

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