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Posted on by ElvirBotic

Hello, I hope this is an easy fix. I am having trouble with my Power App not returning the date values a user entered into a form. I created a form with two date fields using the date picker from Power Apps. One is a start date and the other is a completed date. I am using the patch function to save the values into a SharePoint list. The SharePoint data types for the start date and completed date are single line of text because I did not want UTC to impact the dates in the SharePoint list. When a user looks at a record in Power Apps all other fields populate except the date fields and the time. I also created two time fields in 24 hour format for hours and minutes are only 15, 30, 45, and 00. Not sure what happened but any guidance would be helpful.

Also, I can see the date and time in the SharePoint list.

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WarrenBelz 152,872 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @ElvirBotic

I am not sure on your UTC reference, but storing dates and times as Text in SharePoint when there is a built-in date/time field type is going to cause complexities in reading from and writing to that you probably can do without. You did not include any code, so it is a bit hard to comment further presently.

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Can you provide the patch statement you are using? If you are creating the dates and times using a date picker you'll need some kind of a Text() function to convert those from dates to text.

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ElvirBotic 41 on at

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Here is the patch function I wrote. Hopefully this helps. @Pstork1

Patch(

'request',

Defaults('request'),

{

'Start Date': DatePickerCanvas3.SelectedDate,

'Work Order Number': DataCardValue2.Value,

'Hour Type': DataCardValue4.Selected,

Completed: DataCardValue5.Selected,

User: DataCardValue6.Value,

'Hours Worked': Value(DataCardValue3.Value),

'Start Hour': DropdownStartHour.Selected,

'Start Minutes': DropdownStartMins.Selected,

'Completed Date': DatePickerCanvas1.SelectedDate,

'Completed Hour': DropdownCompletedHours.Selected,

'Completed Minutes': DropdownCompletedMins.Selected,

Comments: DataCardValue8.Value,

'Building Lookup': DataCardValue1.Selected

}

);

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timl 36,328 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi ElvirBotic

If you're using a form to display the record that you saved, the most likely reason for not seeing the correct date in the date picker is because you'll need to convert the text value back to string.

If you're using the modern date picker control, for the 'Start Date' field, you can try setting the SelectedDate property like so:

DateValue(ThisItem.'Start Date')

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