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Setting Person/Group field in SharePoint to empty using PowerApps SharePoint list form

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Hi Everyone,

I have created New/Edit/and Show forms for a SharePoint list which includes a person/group field. 

On the form, for the person field I have added a filter to the combo box to remove certain users without an email address - something like this:

Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm: .......(blah)

 

The new item form works fine.

The update method of the data card containing the combo box has something like this...

{
        DisplayName: ComboBox1.Selected.DisplayName,
        Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & ComboBox1.Selected.Mail
}

This also works fine. The issue occurs when a user selects the 'x' in the combo box to clear the field so that when they save they are setting the field back to be empty. I have tried many combinations of blank(), creating blank person records, even the Enable : Formula Level Error Management app setting, and nothing will make the field set back be empty.

 

I have read that this isn't actually possible. Is this true?

 

 

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    v-monli-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @jthard ,

     

    If you use the default combo box control inside the edit form, then deleting the existing person and update with empty value works just fine. But if you modified the combo box and it seems to result like this. 

     

    Check if below thread could help:

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Clearing-out-people-picker-field/td-p/200069

     

    Regards,

    Mona 

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