I have a dropdown control that I have added an "Other" option too for manual entry of an item if the pre-defined list doesn't contain what is needed. I followed this tutorial: Create A Dropdown With An Other Option In Power Apps (matthewdevaney.com)
To make this work I had initially cleared out the default property for the dropdown control as it was throwing an error about the expected value being a record but receiving type text.
But doing this means that the dropdown always defaults to nothing being selected. This is fine for entering new items, but it is causing issues when viewing or editing existing items in the form as it does not bring in the currently set value from the record so when the item is saved it is clearing out the previous selection.
For example:
Here you can see I have a description set in the contract action description column:
But when you open or edit the actual record it is just blank:
How can I set the default property so that if a selection in that field was previously made it will be brought over properly in the view/edit forms ?
