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Hello!

I'm assisting a Maker build an app which will be on user's mobile devices. There is only one field which has to be selected. It is a multi-choice column in Dataverse. The control is a Combo Box, modern, I think.

The combo box is to 'Select Areas You Checked'. See screen shots.

The user experience when more than one value is selected is not ideal. The text just runs together.

Does anyone have any recommendation to improve this? Different control? Different solution approach?

Maker tried the classic combo box, and it is not much better and doesn't even show the selections if four are chosen.

I suppose we could customize a gallery for selection, but Maker was interested in exploring options.

Appreciate any assist!

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Leave the modern Combo Box for picking, but don’t rely on its collapsed text. Add a label (or HTML text) under the control to render the selected items as a bulleted list that wraps nicely.

Controls

ComboBoxAreas (your existing control, SelectMultiple = true)

lblAreasSummary (Label, AutoHeight = true)

Label.Text

If(
    IsEmpty(ComboBoxAreas.SelectedItems),
    "No areas selected",
    "Selected:" & Char(10) &
    Concat(ComboBoxAreas.SelectedItems, "• " & Value, Char(10))
)

Why? You keep search and multi‑select behavior of Combo Box, but give users an accessible, scannable list. (Tip: set the label’s Live to Polite and a meaningful AccessibleLabel for screen readers.)

Variation: Use an HTML text control and render an unordered list:

"<ul style='margin:0;padding-left:18px'>" &
Concat(ComboBoxAreas.SelectedItems, "<li>" & Text(Value) & "</li>") &
"</ul>"

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