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I am very new to Power Apps so please be gentle with me. I have been searching for many, many hours now about comboboxes. Here's what I am looking to replicate; a department used InfoPath extensively in an on-premise site and I am looking to move those forms to online and using Power Apps to replicate as much as possible these InfoPath forms. Mostly, it's going well. But I cannot figure out how or if I can replicate how they are using drop-down list boxes in InfoPath. In particular, they have values that tie to a choice column in SP, then they have a display name that shows in the InfoPath drop-down instead of the value. The value isn't all that useful because it is just a letter but having just a letter in the list is fine because they can click on a record and view what the letter means. So, basically, it is a mask for acceptable values for the column.

 

I have searched about cascading comboboxes, secondary texts, etc but have not found something to fit this need. I assume it would need to be a combobox because it needs to be multi-select. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks!

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  • michelle4 Profile Picture
    98 on at

    You will most likely need to create a reference SharePoint list to hold the data, and then apply what you learned from cascading drop downs or use that list as a lookup column in the destination list. 

  • cthomas1 Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Thanks for your reply! I actually thought of a different way to accomplish what I want. I will just put the values I want into a new list column in the list, then just use a calculated value based on the new column for the column that holds the letter value. I can then just hide the new column for views but show it in the forms. Seems easiest.

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