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Patch a DropDown to sharepoint expected type error

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Hi guys, me again.

 

The following Problem occurred.

 

I have a Dropdown menu filled with Data from a Dataverse table. 
Now I have to save the selected from the Drop down to Sharepoint List, with a column "Single-Line Text"

 

With DropDown sample the following code always works.

 

Patch(
 Verfahrensverzeichniss,
 Defaults(Verfahrensverzeichniss),
 {
 Title: Ver_nam.Text,
 ID_Ver:Ver_ID.Text,
 Status: Status_DropDown.Selected.Value
 }
);

 

If the Drop down has custom data that doesn't work.

 

The following error occurs: "The Type of this argument #Status' does not match the expected type 'Text'. Found type 'Error' "

 

I tried multiple other ideas. 

 

Status: Status-Dropdown.Selected

Status: Status-Dropdown

Status: Text(Status-Dropdown.Selected.Value)
Status: Text(Status-Dropdown.Selected)

Status: Value(Status-Dropdown.Selected)
Status: Value(Status-Dropdown)

 

Non of them worked. 

 

The problem is, I also have to path it, that if I select the List item in the drop down menu the saved item should be default. 

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    timl Profile Picture
    37,199 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

    Have you tried referencing the Dataverse column name that you want to patch? For example, if your Dataverse table contains the column StatusDescription -

    Status: Status-Dropdown.Selected.StatusDescription
  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    That worked.

    Referencing 

    Status_DropDown.Selected.'Status (cr24_status)' <- For me


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