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NewForm() not populating defaults in form

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

I have the defaultmode set to new and also I am invoking the NewForm function when pressing the navigation button to the page where the form is.

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  • ilton Profile Picture
    194 on at

    Hi @Anonymous 

    try setting the default in the inputs, most inputs have a default property

     

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    yup its set to parent.default

  • ilton Profile Picture
    194 on at

    the parent is probably a card that also has a default field, you can set the default there if the input it self its set to parent.

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    for that I have 
    ThisItem.'Prevention of Accidental Ignition'
    where after the dot is a column in my sharepoint list

  • ilton Profile Picture
    194 on at

    Hi.

    ThisItem.'Prevention of Accidental Ignition' is Blank() that's why the input is empty

    you can set to If(ThisItem.'Prevention of Accidental Ignition' = Blank(), "your default", ThisItem.'Prevention of Accidental Ignition')

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    but there are defaults within the SharePoint list already. there has to be a way to pull those out

  • ilton Profile Picture
    194 on at

    Hi.

    Thats true, but setting the default manually will tell you if the default is not being pulled.

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/How-do-i-get-PowerApps-Forms-to-populate-the-default-value-from/m-p/138128/highlight/true#M47641

    this post might help.

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Yes I was looking at that link before as well. I did some testing and it seems that the parent default is blank. do you know of any way to fix that?

  • ilton Profile Picture
    194 on at
    I don't know a way around, I just manually set default value for the input or card
  • eka24 Profile Picture
    20,925 on at

    My understanding is that it is EditForm or ViewForm that populates data from datasource. Therefore your navigate Button should rather be: EditForm(YourFormName)

     

    New form don't populate forms, is supposed to be blank

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