I built a Power App to be an all-in-one K-12 Physical Therapy documentation app. It's pretty spiffy.
Now if you look at that red circled part, that's a Rich Text editor that absolutely refuses to let me use it. Every time I open app as a user, it's always grayed out (as if it were "Disabled"). However, I guarantee it has every reason to be "Edit".
Here's the details:
Has anyone else experienced rogue Rich Text inputs going "disabled" for no reason?
We bumped into the exact same problem with an app today. Looks like this is indeed a bug with PowerApps.
Thanks @JohnAla , that did the trick. Such a simple workaround for this problem but I did not think to try it.
I'm sure by now you have worked around this issue. I had the exact same problem as you and I solved it by copying the DisplayMode formula for the card to the DisplayMode for the rich text control. So, the card and the control have the same formula for determining "edit" or "display".
I could not get the control to respect Parent.DisplayMode. I thought of setting a variable somewhere but couldn't find a good spot for that so went with the duplicate formula.
@jzcase ,
Clearly it should not do this and I cannot replicate it here. I suggest you lodge a Support Ticket with Microsoft
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Yep.
I will also add a strange behavior: See how the rich text editor is grayed out in the screenshot above?
When I preview in Power Apps studio, the problem goes away and it works fine.
That doesn't help for the published app though.
Hi @jzcase ,
There is nothing special about that control. Put a label in the card with
Parent.DisplayMode
and see if it displays edit
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