Combobox (MS Lookup) with PATCH gives Network Error, if DefaultSelectedItems not manually removed

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Greetings,

I have a multiple-select combobox (Produkte_cmb) for Sharepoint Multiple-Select Lookup column Produkte which is dependant on the SelectedItems of another multiselect combobox (Produktlinien cmb). Produkte is looking up the List Produkte PLA with two columns - Produkt Src (this is the value column for Produkte) and ProduktlinieRef which is used as reference to the parent combobox Produktlinien_cmb for the preselection.

Items property of combobox Produkte_cmb is set to:

Ungroup(
 ForAll(
 Produktlinien_cmb.SelectedItems As _Sel,
 Filter(
 'Produkte PLA',
 ProduktlinieRef.Value in _Sel.Value 
 )
 ),
 "Value"
)

DefaultSelectedItems is set to Parent.Default

Update property of corresponding datacard is set to Coalesce(Produkte_cmb.SelectedItems)

The lookup column itself is populated via PATCH function set currently in the OnSelect property of the Save & Submit button of the Edit form before SubmitForm action. The code is as follows.

ForAll(
 Produkte_cmb.SelectedItems,
 Collect(
 colProdukte,
 {
 '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
 Id: ID,
 Value: ProduktSrc
 }
 )
);
atch (
 ELN,
 LookUp(
 ELN,
 ID = varSelectedListItemID
 ),
 {
 Title: varThisItem.Title,
 Produkte: colProdukte
 }
);

Observations:

If column Produkte is empty, everything works nicely - Produkte_cmb gets populated, Form saves on submit, Values are saved in the column Produkte appear in the Produkte_cmb upon reopening of the form
If column Produkte already has values following unwanted behaviours are observed:
1. Existing values are not recognized by combobox being same as new ones - e. g. if entry A exists and another entry A is selected, two entries A are populated. Another selection of A removes the second new! entry A.
2. If all (!) existing values are not manually removed, saving of the form results in following error:

The form gets canceled and no changes are saved.

3. If all (!) existing values are manually removed - see 1, everything works again.

Any idea, how to tackle this issue?

Thank you!

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Hi @Nuriel ,

The root cause of this issue is DefaultSelectedItems result is not matching the table of Items property of the Combo box. Since it's a LookUp column allows multiple selections, Parent.Default is with below structure:

[ {Id:..., Value:...}, {Id:..., Value:...}, {Id:..., Value:...}, {Id:..., Value:...}, ... ]

But Items table using the UnGroup function includes all columns of the 'Produkte PLA' list. To solve the issue, you can try and modify the formula in DefaultSelectedItems:

ForAll(ThisItem.Produkte, LookUp('Produkte PLA', ProduktlinieRef.Value = ThisRecord.Value))

The ForAll function will return a table from Produkte PLA list, includes exact same columns as table in Items.

Best regards,

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Hi, @v-jefferni
thanks a lot for your suggestion.

I have tried to use it, but it didn't work directly, so I had to modify it somewhat:

ThisItem.Produkte exchanged with varThisItem.Produkte (my App gets ID passed from an integrated form, thus ThisItem and ThisRecord do not work unfortunately)
ProduktlinienRef can't be used here, because there is no relationship from this column to the Produkte column here - the value of Produkte corresponds to ProduktSrc single text column column in 'Produkte PLA".
ThisRecord.Value I wanted to substitute by varThisItem.Value which weirdly gave error all the time, so I tried just using Value and it worked

In the end I came up with the following :

ForAll(varThisItem.Produkte, LookUp('Produkte PLA', Value = ProduktSrc))

So far everything seems to work correctly, I will need to run more tests for all special cases I have in my app, but for now I see that:

Previously saved items are loaded correctly and are being recognized as lookup values correctly
When I click on them, they get removed, no new copies are populated
New items can be added and after saving/submitting and patching, everything gets properly saved without any error and without the need to remove previous items first.
So I hope that was it.

Thanks a lot for bringing me on the right track!!!
Best Regards 👍

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