Form, choose from dropdown or enter new

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I have a Edit form saving to a Sharepoint list. My Title column which is a single line text, is in my form twice, once as a dropdown and once as a standard datacard. Then with a toggle I switch visibility between the two.

The Title column is used as a subcategory selector in my form.

My intent was when entering a new item, I could choose between selecting from the dropdown, but if I could not see the appropriate text I could toggle to adding a new value(or subcategory). But it seems that when submitting I can only have one or the other.

I hope that's clear

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Hi,

When it comes to submitting your entry are you just using the SubmitForm Function? Assuming so, you might want to look into the Patch Function, which will give you much more control over what is updating what. Also if memory serves me correct, you may have some luck, looking to the Update property of the DataCards and adding logic in there to update based on the value of one control over the other.

Patch function - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

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@Corissandageri ,

You can put them in the same Data Card with the same visibility rules and change the Update of the data card

If( YourTextBoxName.Visible, YourTextBoxName.Text, YourDropDownName.Selected.Value )

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Hi @Corissandageri ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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Hi Warren, I've been away from Power Apps for a few days, yes this works well thank you. Never even thought it was a possibility to have more than one input in a single datacard.

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