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Dropdown Control and CDS Picklists

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

I'm using an app conected to CDS.

In my dropdown controls i'm using picklists from CDS too.

But the dropdown only shows the particular name of the elements (simple name, no special characters, etc) and i want to show their DISPLAY NAME (with special characters, blank spaces, etc). How do i do that?

 

Thanks in advance!!

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    v-micsh-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    Currently only the Name field of the picklist is available to shown in PowerApps, there are ideas submitted for this, check:

    Use 'Display Name' in dropdown list

    And:

    PowerApps display the wrong field for picklists

     

    Please consider vote them up.

     

    Regards,

    Michael

     

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    BABY_METAL 8 on at

    I agree!

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