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Hello all, I am a quite a brand new PowerApps user and having been building a canvas app for more work over the last month.

 

Today I already had a functioning Edit Form (that outputs to Excel data), and I added a new column to my excel sheet (Status) so I could add a new DataCard. I refreshed the data source, added the data card, deleted the text box from the data card, added the input Dropdown box, linked it to the appropriate 'Status' data, corrected the usual errors associated with that, all with no issues so far.

 

The issue is when I go to submit changes to a form. I have a separate button to switch the form from View to Edit, and changes can be made with no issue. But with this new dropdown, it DOES display the correct line items from the data source, but when SubmitForm is done, it reverts back to blank when the form kicks back to View mode. Any ideas why that specific dropdown would do this? All my other text and date entries don't, only the dropdown.

 

I feel like it's a simple fix but can't quite put my finger on it lol. Thanks for any help!

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  • cwyn_ah Profile Picture
    22 on at

    UPDATE:

    So it seems it DOES actually submit the selected dropdown data to my excel data, but when the form reverts to View mode, it only shows the default dropdown option... Now this only confuses me even more haha.

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    Hi @cwyn_ah,

    Do you want to display the dropdown value corresponding to the field in a record?

    Could you please tell me how you set the Default or DefaultSelectedItems property of the dropdown control?

     

    Actually, how you set the default value of the dropdown controls depends on how you set the Items property of it.

    If you set the Dropdown control with the column value from the Excel directly like Table1.Status, you should set the Dropdown Default property as below:

    ThisItem.Status

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