PowerApps - Default Selected Items - Canvas - Email ID in To:\

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Hi,

I have a canvas mail app, where i have To:\ Cc:\ Bcc:\

I have a To:\ combo box , the defaultselectedItems value is below.

When i select the below , i am getting empty record, which means it is not recognizing the value from the 'default selected item'.

But when i remove the default selected item , and manually go and select a email from a drop down, it is sending the email successfully to the person in To:

What is the wrong with picking the default selected item?

Just for understanding , here is my Sample canvas app

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WarrenBelz 156,566 Most Valuable Professional on at

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HI @dsab81 ,

What are the Items of the ComboBox (or more to the point, what is the valid output of xxxx in ComboBoxName.Selected.xxxx? If as an example is was EmailAddress, the DefaultSelectedItems would be

{EmailAddress:User().Email}

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When i query 'ComboBox-To'.SelectedItems , it should display the User Record . But what i get is empty table as i mentioned in my original post. It doesnt pick the value from the default selected items.

So when i send email using the send button (formulae) , it doesn't send email to the user as it find the value in the default selected item to be empty.
Office365Outlook_1.SendEmailV2( Concat(
'ComboBox-To'.SelectedItems,
Mail& ";" )

Here is the 'items' :
Microsoft365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm: 'ComboBox-To'.SearchText})

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Yes, that is correct, because you are saying ('ComboBox-To'.SelectedItems), where in the default case the item was not selected manually, therefore the value will be blank, so what you can do as a work around, you can set the selected value in a variable, and declare a this variable onVisible property for the screen, which means :
1. go to screen OnVisible property, decalre new variable with the default value,

2. go to the Selected Default item in the comboBox and set it to the variable value,

3. Onchange property for the comboBox change the value for the same variable

4. Use the variable value to send email ,

This should work now 🙂