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I have a gallery which has a collection to enter multiple goals. When I am trying to generate a JSON from the collection items the JSON is returned with only last item repeated number of times as the number of items.

 

From the below screenshot, I should expect the JSON to return...

[{"APSTFocusArea":"fg","GoalTitle":"sf","AchieveBy":"May 20, 2019","IWill":"ggg","SoThat":"fg","Strategy":"gggggggggggggggg","ProgressNotes":"sf"},{"APSTFocusArea":"j","GoalTitle":"jhh","AchieveBy":"May 20, 2019","IWill":"hj","SoThat":"gj","Strategy":"jjjjjjjj","ProgressNotes":"jklljh"}]

 

But the value returned is

[{"APSTFocusArea":"j","GoalTitle":"jhh","AchieveBy":"May 20, 2019","IWill":"hj","SoThat":"gj","Strategy":"jjjjjjjj","ProgressNotes":"jklljh"},

{"APSTFocusArea":"j","GoalTitle":"jhh","AchieveBy":"May 20, 2019","IWill":"hj","SoThat":"gj","Strategy":"jjjjjjjj","ProgressNotes":"jklljh"}]

 

The formula I used is

 

Concat(
GoalsCollection,
",{""APSTFocusArea"":""" & APSTFocusArea_1.Text & """,""GoalTitle"":""" & GoalTitle_1.Text & """,""AchieveBy"":""" & AchieveBy_1.SelectedDate & """,""IWill"":""" & IWill_1.Text & """,""SoThat"":""" & SoThat_1.Text & """,""Strategy"":""" & Strategy_1.Text & """,""ProgressNotes"":""" & ProgressNotes_1.Text & """}"
)

 

Why would concat pick only the last record multiple times? Has anyone experienced this before?

 

2019-05-20_14-20-15.jpg

 

Thanks in advance,

Manu

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  • BitLord69 Profile Picture
    914 on at

    That's not so strange since you're getting the values from the text boxes and not the collection itself:

     

    Concat(
    GoalsCollection,
    ",{""APSTFocusArea"":""" & APSTFocusArea_1.Text & """,""GoalTitle"":""" & GoalTitle_1.Text & """,""AchieveBy"":""" & AchieveBy_1.SelectedDate & """,""IWill"":""" & IWill_1.Text & """,""SoThat"":""" & SoThat_1.Text & """,""Strategy"":""" & Strategy_1.Text & """,""ProgressNotes"":""" & ProgressNotes_1.Text & """}"
    )

    Change all the text boxes to the underlying field (column) in the collection, and it will work!

     

    Concat(
    GoalsCollection,
    ",{""APSTFocusArea"":""" & Collection_column1 & """,""GoalTitle"":""" & GoalTitle_1.Text & """,""AchieveBy"":""" & AchieveBy_1.SelectedDate & """,""IWill"":""" & IWill_1.Text & """,""SoThat"":""" & SoThat_1.Text & """,""Strategy"":""" & Strategy_1.Text & """,""ProgressNotes"":""" & ProgressNotes_1.Text & """}"
    )

    Good luck!

  • v-yuxima-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @manu0417 

     

    Do you test with @BitLord69 's suggestion?

    If it works ok,please accept it as solution.

     

    Best Regards.

    Yumia

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @manu0417 can you review the above replies and update the thread if they were helpful? 

     

    Thank you,

     

    @Anonymous 

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