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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

The subject is worded poorly, but here's the question anyway. 

 

I have a powerapp with a form. One of the text fields in the form occasionally requires a user to submit a fairly sizeable chunk of text. I would like to integrate a button in my form that users can click on to open up a larger screen-sized text input field. See the image below for an indication of what I mean. 

 

ErnestZ_0-1680532456498.png

 

The user should be able to either a) fill in the Protokoll right there in the form, or b) click on the 'Edit' button and fill in the Protokoll in a separate and larger text field. I can put together a pop-up window fairly easily and integrate it with the edit button. The problem I have is integrating the form on the base screen with the form in the pop-up window. And I have the feeling that I am going at this the wrong way.

 

To put the whole thing rather simply: The text field in the form is too small. I can change the mode of the text field to multiple lines and increase the size of the box, but my boss doesn't like that. So then, is there a way to fill out the text field in some separate and larger text field that I can navigate too through the click of a button? Or again, is there some other way of fulfilling this requirement that I am not thinking of?

 

Best, 

Ernest

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  • TheRobRush Profile Picture
    11,128 Moderator on at

    set your (for this example) DataCardValue1 default to

    editText

    and your button OnSelect to

    UpdateContext({editVis:true, editText:DataCardValue1.Text})

    place a text input control OUTSIDE the form and above it. Set it's visibility to

    editVis

    and it's default to

    editText

    also place an icon above it, or a button, your preference with the visibility of

    editVis

    and an OnSelect of

    UpdateContext({editVis:false,editText:TextInput1.Text})

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