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Distribute horizontal/vertical, problem with dot as decimal separator

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I am editing my powerapps from powerapps.com and my language is set to Swedish by default.

When i am trying to distribute icons vertically or horizontally it initially seems to work but one nanosecond later there is a problem with the distribution.
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It seems that the function "distribute" use "." instead of "," as decimal separator.
This results in an error in my selected language.

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v-xida-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Anonymous,

Do you use ',' (comma) as decimal separator on your region?

The Decimal separator character in PowerApps is dependent on the language. Some regions of the world use "." as a decimal separator while others use ",".

Please check the following article for more details:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/global-apps

When using PowerApps Studio for web (web experience), the language used is provided by the browser. Most browser default to the host operating system's setting with some also providing a way to set the language manually.

Please check if you have set the language of your browser to Swedish. Also please take a try to set the language to Swedish for your host operating system.

Please take a try to set the X property of the Icon control to following:

280,5 /* <-- instead of 280.5 */

If the issue still exists, please consider submit an assisted support ticket through the following link:

https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/support/pro/

Best regards,

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CarlosFigueira Microsoft Employee on at

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Thank you for reporting this issue, this is indeed a bug in PowerApps and I've reported it to the proper team for fixing.

For now, after you execute the "Distribuera vågrätt" / "Distribute horizontally" action you can manually select the X property of the controls that show a red X and replace the '.' by a ',' in the formula bar.

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Thank you both for the answers!
I actually changed the dot for the comma as soon as i noticed it. 🙂

Before i just thought it was strange behaviour and left the feature alone, but when i had "X" selected in the dropdown i saw the dot and the pale decimal and figured it was an easy programming error. Then i reported it.

Give my love to the powerapps-team btw, they have really made my life so much easier at work!

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