Button is not clickable in a View Form

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I want to add a clickable button in a ViewForm (FormMode.View).

But when I add a button into the form, the button becomes unclickable.

I want to keep the button inside the form. Is there any way to enable this button?

This form is a ViewForm:

I added a button which DisplayMode is DisplayMode.Edit, but it is not clickable.

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zmorek 3,272 on at

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You can instead have the form in Edit mode, then individually set the rest of the datacards to View, if that's the functionality you need.

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@403

I checked and the form mode seems to take precedence over everything when the form is in View mode. However, when the form is in Edit mode, the card can be set to View and that will take precedence over the Parent.DisplayMode. If that is the case, then the button will have to be outside the form when it is in View mode.

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Hi @403 ,

It seems that the button you added is in the original data card.
Maybe you could try adding Button in Custom Card and try it again, it works on my side.

Best Regards,
Charlie Choi

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403 49 on at

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@v-yujincui-msft
Hello,
It doesn't work for me.
Is there something more to do to make it work?
Plus is there any way to make the button clickable in an original data card?
FYI I'm using PowerApps for Teams.

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Drrickryp Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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It didn't work for me either. @403 Why do you need the button inside the form and what is its function?

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403 49 on at

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Hello @Drrickryp ,

The function of the button can be anything related to data in a specific data card.

It can be, for example, navigating to a screen which presents more description about what "Categories" field is, running a flow send an email notification to a person in "Created by" field, or anything like these.

I want to place these kinds of buttons near to (inside) the data cards so that users can get clear idea which data they are interacting with.

I'm using a simple form as an example in the screenshot, but the actual forms I'm working with have much more data cards having lots of conditional formulas in Visible and DisplayMode (already!).

I was wondering if there is any convenient way to achieve this in a ViewForm, without making things too complicated.

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Hi @403 ,

@Drrickryp Sorry my bad, i used Display form not Edit form.

Maybe you could consider not putting the Button inside the Form or the Data card, but just putting it at that position on the screen, so that the Display Mode of the Button will not be affected by the Form.

Best Regards,
Charlie Choi

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403 49 on at

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Hello @v-yujincui-msft ,

What if the form is longer than the screen height so that it needs to be scrolled?

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sirbasku 4 on at

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I have same request. A very common scenario is to show a read-only form such as a View form and be able to click on a foreign key field to navigate to that record related by foreign key.

For example, an invoice form, in view mode not in edit mode, showing data about an already posted invoice. On the read-only invoice form users may expect to be able to click on say, the customer field (or a little button next to it) and navigate to the customer record. Or a button next to phone number fields to call them; too many possibilities to list them all. Making a form open in edit mode just to manually set the view mode on all the fields except these buttons is ludicrous. In addition to being a complete waste of time coding that, it opens the form up to inadvertently saving data to the database, just to be able to click on a button near the field the button reacts with. For example, on this very forum screen I can click a reply button next to read-only comments by other users, this is a very common need.

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kjmorgan89 5 on at

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zmorek, this worked for me, thank you. I set the overall form "Default mode" to "Edit." I then set the individual data card drop-down box to "DisplayMode.View" 💪

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