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I've been meaning to create a Time Tracker app and stumbled upon this great video from Randy Hayes: (25) PowerApps Time Tracker - YouTube

I was following his video every step of the way in a test environment and when I got to the part where I'm supposed to run the app and Check In, Lunch Out so that records are created in the SharePoint list I get this error message: "Network Error When Using Patch Function: Title field is mandatory."

My code is exactly like his in the video, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Patch(TimeTracker; Defaults(TimeTracker);
{
Title: glbUser;
ActivityType:ThisItem.display;
ActivityDateTime: Text(Now(); "yyyymmddhhmm"); ActivityDate: Now()
}
)

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WarrenBelz 156,064 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @vinidegrandi ,

The error suggests that nothing is being written to the Title field - have you checked that glbUser has content when this is written ?

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I have this set up as the OnStart of the app:

Set(glbUser; Lower(User().Email))

But it does say that glbUser is blank...

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@vinidegrandi ,

OK you have found your problem - it is not the Patch, but the Variable not containing data to write to the required field. Your code should work, however try this

Patch( TimeTracker; Defaults(TimeTracker); { Title: Lower(User().Email); ActivityType: ThisItem.display; ActivityDateTime: Text(Now(); "yyyymmddhhmm"); ActivityDate: Now() } )

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I have found the issue! I hadn't run the variable so it definitely wasn't going to work haha

Thank you for your time and help!

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