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I need to perform two or more actions when I click a button created in a canvas app.
Various guides indicate to separate the actions with the ; character.

I tried recreating the examples in the guides (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/controls/control-button)

Set the Add's OnSelect property to this formula:

UpdateContext({Total:Total + Value(Source.Text)});
UpdateContext({ClearInput: ""})

Note

Separate multiple formulas with a semicolon ";".

But when I set the actions in the OnSelect property, the application returns an error "unexpected characters. The characters in the formula are used unexpectedly."

Another article states that with the advent of Power fx functions, when using multiple actions, you no longer need to use the ; character as a separator, but you must use the , character or a line break (\n).

Unfortunately, in this case too, the application returns an error and prevents you from proceeding.
Can anyone offer some guidance?

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Try any of the below option.

✅ Option 1 – Use ; (common in en-US locale)

UpdateContext({Total: Total + Value(Source.Text)}); UpdateContext({ClearInput: ""})

✅ Option 2 – Use , (common in EU locales)

UpdateContext({Total: Total + Value(Source.Text)}), UpdateContext({ClearInput: ""})

✅ Option 3 – Use line breaks
UpdateContext({Total: Total + Value(Source.Text)}) UpdateContext({ClearInput: ""})

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Hi @RM-11081943-0,

I suspect you are using European syntax where (you need to get accustomed to this in all of your coding) you use a semi-colon ; instead of a comma , and two semi-colons ;; instead of a single ;

So in your case the two options would be
UpdateContext({Total: Total + Value(Source.Text)});; UpdateContext({ClearInput: ""})

or in the case of UpdateContext, you can do two in the one statement
UpdateContext( { Total: Total + Value(Source.Text); ClearInput: "" } )

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