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Creating new Dynamics Lead with lookup fields generates error

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I'm new to PowerApps so bear with me if this is considered common knowledge...

I'm trying to create a new lead record in Dynamics 365 which includes 3 custom lookup fields (. If I don't include the lookups on the forms it creates the new record without issues. When I add in the lookup fields back in it throws this error: "expected dataentityrecord for navigation column". I have searched high and low but haven't been able to find a solution.

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v-micsh-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Would you please share more details about the lookup fields you are working with?

To work with Lookup fields in Dynamics 365, you may take a look at the following blog:

How to Connect with Dynamics 365 and use Lookup field of Dynamics CRM in PowerApps.

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Michael
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I'm trying to create a basic lead intake form where I capture the First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Address1, City, State, Zip, Brand, Class, and Model of an item.

The lookup fields on the lead are tied to custom entities. There are three of them...

Brand
Class
Model

...For this particular app I would like to force the values for these three since they will always be the same. I can grab the id's easily enough but I can't seem to get it to allow me to write to these three fields. I tried using patch to just directly set the values but it throws a similar error, something to the effect of "the type of this argument does not match the expected type DataEntity." If I leave the threee lookup fields out of the equation everything works fine. If I add them in I get one of the aforementioned errors.
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I am having the same issue when I use the Patch function to try to fill in my Lender lookup type field when creating a new record in my custom Payment entity. When I refer to the Lender field in my expression:

Patch(Payments, Defaults(Payments), { Lender: LoanGallery.Selected.Lender.Account})

I get the error:

The type of this argument 'Lender' does not match the expected type 'DataEntity'. Found type 'Guid.'

I am not sure how to proceed with updating my Lender lookup field using a Patch function.
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Note that I am using the CDS data source.