Answered

Apply text format to data present in Collection

(0) Share

Report

Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hi PowerUsers,

I have this collection called "PayPeriColl" which holds the data of Pay Period Start and Pay Period End.
I'm making this collection on AppOnstart with the following code.
It gathers the record from a response returned by Flow / Power-Automate.

This is the result it returns

I want to apply format to these columns Like "dd/mm/yyyy".

As i have to display the result in a drop down.
Currently I am concatenating PayPeriod Start and Pay Period End from this record set and storing it in a collection called "PayPeriodRange" (See first image above).

This is what I have achieved with it

and this is what being displayed in drop-down
dropdown result.png

How can I apply format to record set in collection so that I may be able to display these pay periods in "dd/mm/yyyy" format ?

Best Regards,
Ali Nawaz

Categories:

Building Power Apps

All responses (2)

Answers (1)

Sort by

Verified answer

yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

Like
a
(1)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!
Hi @Anonymous

In this case, you can try out the below expression on the Drop-down control directly. You can eliminate the usage of collection if it is not used elsewhere.

Expression:

AddColumns(CollectionName,"MyColl",Text(DateValue(PeriodStartDate),"[$-en-US]dd/mm/yyyy")&"-"&Text(DateValue(PeriodEndDate),"[$-en-US]dd/mm/yyyy")).MyColl

Hope this Helps!

If this reply has answered your question or solved your issue, please mark this question as answered. Answered questions helps users in the future who may have the same issue or question quickly find a resolution via search. If you liked my response, please consider giving it a thumbs up. THANKS!
Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

Like
a
(0)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

@yashag2255 Thanks man it worked perfect.

I was missing Datevalue while casting the PayperiodStarts into texts.

Thanks again 🙂

Best Regards,
Ali Nawaz