Combo Box Default Selected Items Not Saving the Default Option (Only saves the options you select manually)

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I created a Combo Box People picker that can take multiple selections. The code I have in the DefaultSelectedItems is:

Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:User().Email, top:2})

However, when I submit the app, this default value is not save to the Power Apps table variable that is passed to Power Automate.

When I run the app, I can click the Combo Box dropdown, and selected multiple users in addition to the default user, but only the users I select are added to the table, the default user is not.

Is this a bug in Microsoft or am I doing something wrong?

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BCBuizer 22,833 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi @harasenna ,

What data source are you using for the combo box? Please share the Items property.

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This is the code for the ComboBox:

Items = Choices(Library.Person) //this is pulling from a people picker column
DefaultSelectedItems = Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:User().Email, top:2})

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BCBuizer 22,833 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi @harasenna ,

Set the DefaultSelectedItems property to:

Coalesce( Parent.Default, { '@odata.type':"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & User().Email, Department: "", DisplayName: User().FullName, Email: User().Email, JobTitle: "", Picture: "" } )

This will select the saved value from the SharePoint list or, if there is none, select the current user.

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