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Hi All, I am new to this Power Platform. As part of exploring the Power Apps, I started off creating some basic apps. While doing that, I was trying to create a contact from App and want to show the account lookup on the screen. I am not using any form or gallery, instead I am using blank screen and adde all my required feilds. I am able to create a new contact in CDS (D365) without Account, but I want to add Account to it and if the required account is not avaialble from the lookup, it should create an account and map it to that contat.

If(
!(PasswordTextInput.Text = ReEnterPasswordTextInput.Text),
Notify(
"Passwords not matching",
NotificationType.Error
),
Patch(
Contacts,
{'First Name':FirstNameTextInput.Text,
'Last Name':LastNameTextInput.Text,
Password:PasswordTextInput.Text,
Email:EmailTextInput.Text,
'Business Phone':PhoneNumberTextInput.Text }
)
); Navigate(SuccessScreen,None)

Categories:

Microsoft Dataverse with Power Apps

Hi @krishnags,

Could you please share a bit more about your scenario?

Do you want to list the available accounts from the Accounts Entity of your CDS within your app?

If you want to list the available accounts from the Accounts Entity of your CDS within your app, I think the Combo Box control could achieve your needs. I have made a test on my side, please take a try with the following workaround:

Within your app, add your Accounts Entity as a data source, then add a Combo Box control within the screen of your app, set the Items property of the Combo Box control to following:

Accounts

Within the Right Pop-Up panel, set the Primary text field and SearchField both to FullName column.

Please check the attached GIF screenshot for more details:

I assume that you have created a Account Name column (Text Type column) in your Contacts Entity already, please modify your formula as below:

If(
 !(PasswordTextInput.Text = ReEnterPasswordTextInput.Text),
 Notify("Passwords not matching", NotificationType.Error),
 Patch(
 Contacts,
 Defaults(Contacts), /* <- Modify formula here */
 {
 'First Name':FirstNameTextInput.Text,
 'Last Name':LastNameTextInput.Text,
 Password: PasswordTextInput.Text,
 Email: EmailTextInput.Text,
 'Business Phone': PhoneNumberTextInput.Text,
 AccountName: ComboBox1.Selected.FullName /* <- Add formula here , ComboxBox1 represents the ComboBox control in your app*/
 }
 )
);
Navigate(SuccessScreen,None)