Populating a variable from selected gallery item

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Having a small issue with this. Trying to do the following:

Officer needs to create supplemental report. New report number will be Title&-"S"

When officer clicks on create supplemental report, he will go to a new form but the Title card needs to have a default of selected gallery item's Title&-"S"

Example below, new title card default would be S201H-001-S.

Any takers?

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@slhangen

Please share the error message you are receiving. This is the most important piece of information.

Is your button inside the gallery? This might be the case because PowerApps does not recognize ThisItem.

Did you put this code in the OnSelect property of the button?

Set(varSupplementalNumber, ThisItem.Title&”-S”)

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Is your button inside the gallery? Yes

This might be the case because PowerApps does not recognize ThisItem.

Did you put this code in the OnSelect property of the button? Yes

Set(varSupplementalNumber, ThisItem.Title&”-S”)

Is there a better way to do this?

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Is your button inside the gallery? Yes
This might be the case because PowerApps does not recognize ThisItem.
Did you put this code in the OnSelect property of the button? Yes
Set(varSupplementalNumber, ThisItem.Title&”-S”)

Is there a better way to do this?

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@slhangen

I still want to see that error message. Please share it.

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@slhangen
I believe this error is being caused by setting the same variable as 2 different types. You can only use SET or UPDATECONTEXT for a variable name. varSupplementalNumber cannot be used both ways. Pick 1.

Set(varSupplementalNumber, ...)

UpdateContext({varSupplementalNumber: ...)

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Thx so much. I got it. The button was sitting outside the gallery item. Facepalm!!!
One more thing, I would like the button to open up a supplemental report based on original report. Can I populate the new form with some of the data from the original report? The original report contents need to be duplicated while other cards such as narrative need to be blank.
Thx again.

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