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Making a canvas app using a Dataverse table. I have a combobox that allows for a user to pick a user-ID for a report form. It will automatically populate their basic information in other fields. After they make a submission of a report, I need it to default to the employee ID of the item selected in the gallery (for display specifically).

The DATACARD properties:

Items: 'PIT Operator Logs'
Display Fields: ["crfb2_empid", "crfb2_lastname"]
SearchFields: ["crfb2_empid"]
Default: ThisItem.'Emp ID"
Update: combo_ID.Selected.'Emp ID'

The COMBOBOX properties:

Default: ThisItem
DefaultSelectedItems: Thisitem

Nothing populates the field on display. And whatever I've tried has been useless. I removed the Employee definition for the Datacard Update property, but it gave me an error.

As for the combo box, it does not matter what I do but if I add anything such as 'Emp ID', it gives an error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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ivan_apps 2,187 Moderator on at

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Well for combobox the Default property is deprecated so don’t use that. DefaultSelectedItems is what you want to use: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/controls/control-combo-box

It also has to be an array since it could be set to multiple values.
ex: [“item1”] or [ThisItem] or [ThisItem.EmployeeId]

give that a shot and see it you get something to display

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heiavieh 16 on at

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When I input "ThisItem.'Emp ID'", I get an "Expected Table value" error. The employee ID is a Text value field.

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ivan_apps 2,187 Moderator on at

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ensure you use the brackets "[ ]" to create a table object.
you can also use the Table() function.

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