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I had a need to put a label directing the end user to do something on an edit form and I want to to be at the top of the form. This form has data cards from a SharePoint list and I only want the label to show based on the value of a variable. However, I want to anchor the control and I cannot do this (I would like it to push the data cards down). What would be a way to get around this? Is there one?

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Brad

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Rebetcha 645 on at

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You anchor objects in PowerApps by setting the x en y properties to a fixed position or make a formula that sets the position of the label referencing the hight and width of the screen.
In this case you also need to do something about the positioning of the data cards. You need to create a formula where the positioning of the data cards depends on whether the label is shown or not. You can do that by using the If-function in a formula in the x and y properties of the datacards and referencing the visible proporty in the condition of the If-function. In that way the datacards could have a different position if the label is shown then in case the label is not shown.

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Thanks for the answer. I figured that to be so but I was hoping that maybe there was another property I was missing. I know like in the Visual Studio .Net control properties for a form's controls there is an anchor property. Maybe something in the future. I can include it in the suggestions forum.

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Hi, can you please give me an example of this. Thanks.

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In this article among other things positioning of a control is explained:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/add-configure-controls

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please can you provide a visual on how to anchor a label or text input within a form.
my x & y are just values.
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Jerry

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Parent.Width - Self.Width - 30

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