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Posted on by DieSte

I have an issue with the Textbox in a Flexible Height Gallery

When I add a Textbox to the template of a Flexible Height Gallery, the Textbox does not keep the text that I insert. As soon as the Textbox looses the focus, the change is gone.

Anybody has experienced the same problem?

It only happens in Model driven apps, not in Canvas apps. It does not matter if the Textbox is bound to a table or not. It does not happen in a Standard Gallery, only in Flex Height Gallery.

Sometimes the problem does not exist in the first try, but at least after I saved, published and reloaded the app.

Steps to reproduce:

Create a new model driven app.
Add a new custom page
Add a Flexible Height Gallery
Choose a datasource for the Gallery (with at least 2 records in it)
Select the Gallery template and add a TextBox
Run the app and put some text into the TextBox
Select the Textbox for the next item
==> inserted Text is gone

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

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kneely-STL 4 on at

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I am running into the same thing and it's driving me insane. It is only an issue for Flexible Height galleries. It does not matter if it's a model driven app or not, however I am building in Dataverse for Teams canvas app and it may use the same fluent UI components as the pages in model driven apps, not sure.
I have no fix, but I have confirmed that a label within the same template as a textbox cannot read the TextBox.Value. It appears nothing can read the TextBox.Value which really impedes something like a Patch on change of the textbox. It also changes the input text when I tab out of the field. I hope someone has a fix!

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DieSte 4 on at

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Hi @kneely There was no fix for me.
I raised it as an official request with MS support in May 2022. They were able to reproduce it and recognised it as a bug. I had not been given a release number when it might be fixed.

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TechnicalPanda 41 on at

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How To Create Flexible Height Gallery Design In PowerApps Using Morder Control
https://technicalpandas.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-create-flexible-height-gallery.html

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TechnicalPanda 41 on at

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How To Create Flexible Height Gallery Design In PowerApps Using Morder Control
https://technicalpandas.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-create-flexible-height-gallery.html

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DennisKuhnKR 8 on at

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I think Microsoft fixed it. I just tried a (classic) Textbox in a flexible height gallery connected to a collection. I can change the text in each item independently. I've made the Textbox adjust it height depending on the text length.
The left gallery is fixed, the right one is flexible height. I have changed the first item from "Hi" to "Hi PowerApps Forum".

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