Custom Form - Navigate and Submit

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Hi all,

I have a customized SharePoint form built in PowerApps that is not working correctly.

There are multiple screens which each contain a SharePoint Form (i.e. each screen shows different SharePoint data fields). The Save feature is only saving the screen which the user most recently edited. The SharePoint Integration Properties is set up to submit all SharePoint forms. I also created a button that does the same thing, submitting all forms on all screens.

Is it possible that the Navigate function does not retain data? For example, if a user edits the "Name" field on Screen1, then clicks a button to navigate to Screen2 for more fields to edit, that the change made to "Name" is lost? I always thought that the Navigate function retains data. Either something is wrong with the Submit function or Navigate function... Maybe this is not the issue, just an idea....

Thanks in advance,

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Drrickryp Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Try: Patch(spList, SharePointIntegration.Selected, Form1.Updates, Form2.Updates, Form3.Updates, etc.)

You are correct that he data is not lost with navigation.

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I entered that into the OnSave box in SharePointIntegration Properties. I can't tell if it works.... I should also mention that I added SubmitForm after the Patch function so that, upon selecting the save button, the form closes and brings the user back to default view. But I figure that Patch and SubmitForm can exist together without issue.

What I am noticing is that some fields save perfectly fine and other do not. For example, all text boxes I've tested, across Screens, accept and save correctly. Other fields, like number (currency), and dropdowns do not save the change.

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RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Trying to Patch and Submit is going to present problems in your app. If you have forms you should ONLY be using SubmitForm on them. If you have split your forms across multiple screens, then do NOT use a Patch function on them. This completely breaks the form functionality and you lose all of the features that the form brings to you.

To learn how to split your forms properly without breaking their functionality, please review this video. It will show the process and it is quite simple and will solve the issues you are having.

I hope this is helpful for you.

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