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Hi Community,

I have built an app with some On Failure messaging to notify the user if any mandatory fields have not been submitted to SharePoint.

Run operation is functional, but there are two issues I would appreciate further assistance...

1. Labelling.

PowerApp takes the labelling of the SP columns and removes all spaces:

SP view:

App view of one of the controls:

Is there a more user friendly way to get the Field error message to display 'Quality of Education Strengths' with spaces?

2. Error handling is not completely fool proof.

If the user adds text into the above control, the red boundary correctly disappears and the user can submit.

The submission correctly updates the SP column.

The On Success form appears and the user can navigate back to the App interface.

If the text is removed from the control however, the red boundary line and error message does not re-appear and the app allows the user to submit again with an On Success...

Only when the the text is removed a second time does the On Failure screen appear, and the App control red line again.

The On Failure Error message lags real time by one action. How do I synchronise these?

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Hello @Anonymous ,

For the first question, please follow below:

1. Make sure you have Unlock the Data Card so we can make changes to the control within it. Click the ... then select Unlock:

2. Look for ErrorMessage in the data card.

3. Delete the Parent.Error in the Text Property

4. Replace the Text property value with whatever Error Message you desire:

5. Then navigate to the Visible Property of the Error Message:

As for your second question:

Try either of these:

On your Forms' On Success add the code NewForm(Self) or ResetForm(Self) and see which one works for you.

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Hello @cha_cha ,

Thanks you so much for this.

While I was waiting for a response from the community, I discovered that part of my problem was I had repurposed and relabelled some obsolete SharePoint columns. This had contributed to the errors I was experiencing. I ended up deleting all of the repurposed SP columns and recreating them with new labels. This rectified both issues.

That said, your contribution is super helpful as it explains how to workaround what I did without having to delete and recreate columns. I will set yours and mine as solutions. Thank you for the screenshots, they were most helpful.

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