Prepopulating form fields from button press

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Hi there,

I'm having difficulty pre-populating a form field with designated text when I click a button.

I want to navigate from my landing page, using a button, to a dedicated form page and at the same time prepopulate the "name" data card value with the "button.text".

So far, I've tried:

If(
AberdeenButton.Text = "Aberdeen", "ABER1",
EdinburghButton.Text = "Edinburgh", "EDIN1",
GlasgowButton.Text = "Glasgow", "GLAS1"
)

As a result, when I press the edinburgh button, "ABER1" still prepopulates the datacard value.

Could anybody steer me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

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Pstork1 69,665 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You can't set property values on controls at runtime since Power Apps is declarative. What you can do is point the default setting of the control at a variable value. Then set the context variable value when you navigate to the new screen. Here are three OnSelect entries for the three buttons.

Navigate(Screen3,ScreenTransition.Fade,{ButtonText: "Aberdeen"}) Navigate(Screen3,ScreenTransition.Fade,{ButtonText: "Edinburough"}) Navigate(Screen3,ScreenTransition.Fade,{ButtonText: "Glasgow"})

Then the default setting for the text box is ButtonText
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Thanks @Pstork1 for responding so quickly, and for the solution.

I thought I might've needed to Set a variable onStart or something.

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Since you only navigate to the page when pressing a button there is no need to set anything in OnStart.