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Submitting a form and ignoring required fields

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Posted on 15 Oct 2023 06:17:53 by dystopianrelic

I have a form within my Power App with around 50 fields, many of which are required fields, or dynamically required depending on how other fields have been completed.

Users have commented that they want the ability to ‘part complete’ the form, i.e. get half way through, click a ‘back’ option and save their progress.

This would be a great addition; effectively part completed forms include a draft status flag, and then users are presented with the option to edit their draft form to complete the submission.

The issue is that I’m running into a problem with all those required fields. I could patch each field individually, but additional fields/questions are added periodically, and I want to ensure that there is no danger of an added/removed field in future from being missed off the patch list.

The Title card is autocompleted and hidden from view so there is no danger of that being missed, and the required control of each field sits in PowerApp and not in the underlying data source.

Is there a way of submitting the form but temporarily suppressing some/all of the required fields?

Thanks

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ivan_apps 2,187 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 21 Oct 2023 at 18:56:47

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Re: Submitting a form and ignoring required fields

Yes, basically don’t make them required in your data source but enforce them to be completed before changing the status from Draft to whatever comes after. That way they can fill it out as much as they can while in draft, save progress and come back to it. All you have to do via the Power App is to enforce submission criteria, which in your case if field requirements but it could also do field validations as well.
bobcwoods 2 on 21 Oct 2023 at 17:59:06

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Re: Submitting a form and ignoring required fields

completed form field in all fields but wouldn't permit to send
WarrenBelz 146,670 Most Valuable Professional on 15 Oct 2023 at 06:50:28

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Re: Submitting a form and ignoring required fields

Hi @dystopianrelic ,

You have not given a lot of information, but this is really up to how you control the requirement for the fields - if they are at data source level, you simply have to complete them. If you are controlling this with the Required property of Data Cards, then that can be conditional on basically anything set of conditions you want.

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