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Hi all. this group has been so helpful in answer my PowerApps questions!

I've built out a PowerApps form using a long-time existing SharePoint list. It's a request system - someone needs a project, they put in a request, we assign it, the assignee does the work and updates the project/request. In it, there is a notes section. In Sharepoint, the setting for some reason was set to append changes. It's not necessarity per se, but that's how it's been. Now that we are in Powerapps, it's causing issues. Sometimes it shows the notes, sometimes not. If you make an update, only the last one shows. Sometimes. It's inconsistent - and thus confusing the the 200+ people who can be assigned projects.

 

So - I'm trying to figure out how to tackle it. Options are:

a) leave the append on and do some fanciness to make it display (I've seen a video... which of course I can't find)

b) turn off append and all existing notes basically become invisible and in theory going forward, everything works correctly b/c its just a regular multiline text box

 

Most of the advice i've seen assumes it's the beginning of a project, not coming in in the middle with hundreds (well, thousands) of in-progress entires. Any ideas are appreciated!

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  • RezaDorrani Profile Picture
    12,145 on at

    Hi @JillH 

     

    The append to existsing text basically enables versioning on ur list

    Every comment added is part of a version

    PowerApps will only show the latest comment

     

    One option will be to turn if off but you run the risk of data loss

     

    So first step would be to write a flow - which fetches all versions and gets the comments and then merges it into one string and updates a new column for comments 

     

    This new column will contain all the comments 

     

    Then check this video on how to append comments to existing text with append to turned on

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzLEecSpmFo

     

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    v-monli-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @JillH ,

     

    Do you mean the Append changes to Existing Text setting for Multiple lines of text column?

    Currenlty this feature is not supported under PowerApps, as you already noticed, this field could only be recognized as a string.

     

    Please vote up the following idea:

    Append comments Field

     

    Regards,

    Mona

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