Modern Text Input control Reset?

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My use case is that I want a user to be able to change a value using a modern Text Input Control, lets call it varText.

On Screen1 I set the variable varText to "Value1" and user sees it in a Label control.

The user clicks on an Edit-button to modify the value that is assigned to varText. The user is navigated to Screen2 with the modern Text Input control.

The control's value propetry is set to the varText. The user sees the value in the Text Input field and changes it to "Value2". Clicks a button to save it.

The button.OnSelect is set to Set(varText, TextInputCanvas.Value); Navigate(Screen1) - the variable is well updated and the user is directed to Screen1.

The varText is now "Value2" and our user can see it on Screen1 in the Label control. But if our user made a mistake and actually wanted to set varText to "Value22" they need to edit the text again. They click on the same Edit-button and it takes them to Screen2 and they are expecting that the modern Text Input control field would show "Value2", but it shows "Value1" even though its value property is set to varText and varText is "Value2" and the control was reset...

What am I missing or is this a known limitation? Show I use the classic Text Input instead?

Thanks in advance for all your suggestions!

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Hi @ET-26021018-0,

The default is only the initial value, if the user changes the value, you need to reset the control to set it to whatever the Variable is now. So you need
Reset(YourTextInputName)

You can do this a bit more dynamically with a Classic control as it has a Reset property (just set it to a Boolean Variable and toggle the Variable), however a Modern control will work fine as above.

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Hi @WarrenBelz, thanks for the response!

I had already tried the Reset(ModerTextInputName), however, it doesn't Reset it to the updated value (modern control doesn't have any Default property, so I used Value property set to a variable and it wouldn't update it).

Either there is some logic behind it that I don't get, or it is a bug needs fixing.

I ended up using a Classic Text Input control with Default property set to a variable and Reset when changes are saved, it works fine.

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Hi @ET-26021018-0,

It must be an intermittent bug - I tested a Modern control here with what I posted and it worked fine (as it should). I assume you ran the code from the same screen the target control was on ? Also the Variable toggle option with a Classic control can be a bit more flexible as you can reset several controls with the one Variable toggle.

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Hi @ET-26021018-0,

A quick follow-up to see if you received the answer you were looking for. Happy to assist further if not.

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