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Default Form Field Based on Gallery Selection

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Posted on by Friscosammy

I have what I thought was a simple problem. I have a form connected to a Sharepoint list. I've included a feature where users can complete the form by selecting buttons. The "buttons" are actually just items in a different Sharepoint list for things like hair color and eye color. What I want to do is have a user select an item in a gallery that says for example, "Blue Eyes" and then have the datacard value in the form for eye color default to blue and so on with hair color, sex, etc. What I assumed would work is onselect on a gallery item: Set(varhaircolor,ThisItem.ChosenColor) and then the default of the datacard as simply varhaircolor.

This doesn't work and I guess it's wanting a text value and not a record value but I'm not sure how to fix this and make it work. Any help is much appreciated!

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Gochix 1,937 Moderator on at

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@Friscosammy ,

Instead of ThisItem.ChosenColor use:

Set(varhaircolor,ColorValue(ThisItem.ChosenColor))

I assume you set the DataCard Fill property to varhaircolor variable.
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Hi @Friscosammy ,

The Default of label expects text. What is date type of ChosenColor column?

If the ChosenColor are Color data type, I recommend you add a column for Items of gallery, the column saves color name in text format.

[{ChosenColor:Color.Red,Color:"Red"},{ChosenColor:Color.Yellow,Color:"Yellow"}]

Then modify your formula on OnSelect.

Set(varhaircolor,ThisItem.Color)

Default of Label.

varhaircolor

Another method is put your formula on Fill property of label, Fill expects Color data type and I think it will help user see what the selected color looks like.

Best regards,

Rimmon
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I think I may have not been descriptive enough in my original post. The gallery of options a user can select is a text column in a sharepoint list called ChosenColor. When selecting an item in the gallery, I just want the text of the ChosenColor, e.g. "Blue" or "Brown" or "Blonde", etc. to default into a text datacard for the form which is attached to its own sharepoint list as a datasource.
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Hi @Friscosammy ,

So, the ChosenColor is already a text column. Your current formula has no obvious problem. Is there any error about it? Hope you can provide some screenshots.

Have you tried this?

Set(varhaircolor,Gallery.Selected.ChosenColor)

Best regards,

Rimmon