I want to add text in dropdown list if that text do not exist in choices

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I want to add text in dropdown list if that text do not exist in choices

ex. my choices have

but i want user can add ex. M or P by themselves

What code / should I use in this situation

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Hi, @Anonymous, can you post some of your code ? for example a screenshot or some rows of code
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Hi @Anonymous ,
Do you want to update the drop down's Items according to the user's entered data?
I've made a similar test for your reference:
1)save a collection with the original data:
ClearCollect(aaa,{data:"A"},{data:"B"},{data:"C"})
2)Set the drop down's Items: aaa Value: data
3)insert a textinput control
4)inset a button, set the button's OnSelect:
Collect(aaa,{data&colon;TextInput1.Text})

Then, if the user enter some data in the textinput, click the button. The drop down's data will be updated.

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Community Support Team _ Phoebe Liu
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Hi @Anonymous

Were you able to resolve?

You can use a combobox to achieve your needs, you just need to follow below steps, and whenever you enter something in the combobox search text and clicks outside of the control , the item will be added to collection automatically.

Steps:

1) Create a collection on Screen visible:

Screen -> OnVisible ->
ClearCollect(MyCollection,"Test1","Test2")

2) Add a Combobox control and refer to this collection in the items.

ComboBox -> Items: MyCollection

3) Change the OnSelect property of your combobox to automatically add items.

ComboBox -> OnSelect ->
If(!IsBlank(ComboBox1.SearchText) && !(ComboBox1.SearchText in MyCollection.Value),Collect(MyCollection,ComboBox1.SearchText))

Here ComboBox1 is the name of combobox control, please replace this with actual value.

Please make sure, that you have enable the "Allow Searching" feature in your combobox.

Hope this Helps!

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