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I am hoping to simplify my app building by creating a component that can be used for all yes or no questions. Since all questions won't be the same, the buttons would just be generic triggers.

Lets use deleting an item from a gallery as an example.

You have a component named "Yes-No" with two buttons, Yes and No.

In a gallery there is a Delete button for each item. When pressed, it triggers a variable that makes my "Yes-No" component visible, then it waits for a button press from the Yes/No component. If "yes" is pressed, remove this item, if "no" is pressed, change the variable to make the Yes-no component not visible again.

Is there a way to do this?

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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hey

this video should solve your issue i guess:

How to Build a Popup Dialog Box in Power Apps using Responsive Containers

if it did please mark my answer as verified,

thanks

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@mmbr1606

It does not solve this question.

The issue with the videos solution is the Yes or No button still holds the code. The Yes button has the OnSelect to Remove('Source', ThisGallery.ThisItem), so it can only be used to remove items from that specific gallery.

What I was hoping to achieve is the Yes and No buttons are essentially blank so they could be used for any gallery on any screen for any type of yes or no question. This way I don't have to recreate containers on each screen, or for each gallery.

For example, this doesn't work, but hopefully it paints the picture of what I'm trying to do.

OnSelect for the gallery item Delete button:

Set(varConfirmPopUp, true);

**Waits for you to press yes or no button on the popup**

If('Yes-Btn".Pressed, Remove('Data', ThisItem), If('No-Btn'.Pressed, Set(varConfirmPopUp, false)))

But then that same popup could be used to add an item on a Different screen.

OnSelect for the Add button:

Set(varConfirmPopUp, true);

**Waits for you to press yes or no button on the popup**

If('Yes-Btn'.Pressed, Patch('Data', Defaults...........), If('No-Btn'.Pressed, Set(varConfirmPopUp, false)))

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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hello

i dont think that this is possible, so that you only have 1 popup that can be used in the entire app.

you could follow this video:

How to create a popup or alert box in PowerApps

and when the popup is ready you can group all controls together and copy paste it on any screen you want. so you do not have ti recreate it over and over again.

cheers

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timl 36,393 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi wwmn,

Yes, it's possible to do this. The piece that you're missing is to define 'Event Properties' in your component.

For example, you would create 2 properties in your component called OnOKButtonSelect and OnNoButtonSelect.

In your component, you would raise these event by calling them in the OnSelect property of your Yes and No buttons. You would do this like so:

Yes button OnSelect - YourComponent.OnOKButtonSelect() No button OnSelect - YourComponent.OnNoButtonSelect()

In the gallery screen for your app, you can then handle these events.

In the instance of the component that's on your gallery screen, you can add the following to the OnOkButtonSelect property of your component.

Remove('Data', varRecordToDelete); Set(varConfirmPopUp, false)

This assumes that you set the varRecordToDelete variable in the OnSelect property of the delete button in your gallery.

Set(varConfirmPopUp, true); Set(varRecordToDelete, ThisItem);

For the OnNoButtonSelect property of your component, you can just set varConfirmPopup to false.

The documentation for Event properties is here.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/component-properties

Hopefully this is of some help to you.

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