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How to change text control to dropdown

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Hi Community,

My app has 2 screens. The first screen is an edit form, while the second has an add form to patch data to the bottom of a SP list.

The first screen has a control called "Department" that is prepopulated with 2 letters (AL, HB, VP, etc)

The second screen has the same control but it is currently empty. I require a placeholder forcing the user to select from a drop instead. I saw somewhere where this was done by going to edit the control and selecting from the dropdown the option to change the control type from Edit text to dropdown ( as shown in the first image.)

However if I attempt the same, it doesn't give me that option. Is this because my form is Add rather than Edit. Is there a fix?

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@Anonymous ,
Changing edit text to Allowed values will turn it into a dropdown.

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@turnerj3 Thanks for your input. I did work that out from available resources. Unfortunately the app stopped working without a reset command. Without the reset command either as inline code or behind a button, the edit form remained blank. I wrongly thought the change from text box to dropdown had caused this. After further testing, eventually I worked this out.

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