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I have asked this before but I am at a point where I've made some many changes that I am completely lost. I figured I'd start over. Here is the scenario and how I have implemented. Does this make sense?

I have a gallery that returns the values of a Dataverse table.
Next to this gallery is a form to view all of the fields for each record.
When you click on a record in the gallery the record gets written to a global variable. NOTE: I am using a global variable because there is a copy record function where the record, in the global variable, is used to populate the original edit form.
The form's Item property is set to the global variable.
Each DataCard has a Default of ThisItem.'FieldName'
Each field has a DefaultSelectedItems like this {dk_fullname: Parent.Default}, in the case of combo boxes, or Parent.Default in the case of text input fields

I think this all generally works fine. Maybe this is not the best way to do this so I am open to suggestions.

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Nandit 1,568 Moderator on at

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Hi futr_vision,

Yes this totally makes sense and sounds like a good way of doing it. Plus, you're not experiencing any issues with this method which is the best thing.

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Nandit

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timl 37,283 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi futr_vision

This looks completely fine.

The only minor comment I would make is that if there's no need for you to access the variable outside of the screen, an alternative is to use a context variable instead of a global variable.

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Glad that this a good approach. I am running into issues with dependent combo boxes involving a gallery and a form in edit mode but that is for another post.

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