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Manually add values to a Choice field in a customized form

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In my SharePoint List, I have a Choice type column named Supplier. "Can add values manually" is selected:

When I used the default SharePoint form, it allowed me to manually add values to this field. But now that I've created a customized form, it's not letting me manually add values, and makes me select one of the choices:

Any suggestions on how I can fix this customized form? Thanks in advance!

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WarrenBelz 153,084 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @v-josephc ,

Set the Combo Box to Allow searching and then put this in the Update of the Data Card

{ Value: Coalesce( ComboBoxName.SearchText, ComboBoxName.Selected.Value ) }

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Hi @WarrenBelz ,

I used your solution for this same use case and it works if I type in only one value or choose from the dropwdown. Thank you for that!

For my Power App, we are creating a Choices column called "Tags" to allow users to add tags to their entries such as a project name or an application name. For example, if I am entering an accomplishment for the month in my App, I want to be able to tag Project ABC as well as Application XYZ. These tags would be different for every team so I don't want to add them all in manually as they will grow and change over time.

I have some follow-up questions for you to help expand this functionality:
Is there a way to allow a user to create multiple tags at once?
Can a user both choose an existing tag from the dropdown and also type in a new one?
Why don't the tags they typed in save in the Choices column in my sharepoint as new choices?

Thank you for your expertise!
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Kris10

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WarrenBelz 153,084 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @boscarikn2 ,

Possibly but with a lot more complexity.

No - once you select a value, it deletes anything you have typed in. Also you can only choose one or the other to write.

There is no provision to write to the SharePoint column design, only the data.

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-Tspsc 17 on at

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Final bracket was missing but the code worked. Thank you very much
{Value:Coalesce(DataCardValue3.SearchText,DataCardValue3.Selected.Value)}

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