Setting up a variable onVisible

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I have created a simple form from a SharePoint list which contains 4 text fields (Field 1,2,3 and Status)

In the form I have 3 buttons outside the SharePoint Form, Employee, Line Manager and Escalation. When you press any of the button it will show the relevant field (Employee = Field 1, Line manager = Field 2 and so on) by setting a variable to the value of the button. The fields have the visible property set to the variable to show the right field.

After each stage I am updating the Status to show its moved to the next stage.

What I would like to do is when a user opens the form, depending on what stage (Status) its at, I would like to show the appropriate field set but how do I access the Status value for the record with onVisible?

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@Dhiran

You could try a Switch statement

OnVisible = Switch(Status.Value,

"Employee", Set(Field1_variable, true),

"Line Manager, Set(Field2_variable,true)

... and so on

)

I need a little more detail to give an exact answer but this code gives you the basic structure.

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Hi @Anonymous
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that on a very simple form and the screen does not even update when I click on a existing record.

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Can you please share your code. How are you setting your show/hide variables? My suggest was very generic so you would need to adjust to suit your situation. Without any code reference I cannot support you further.

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Hi @Anonymous

I subsequently found that if I use SharePoint Integrated function, I can get the value of any column in the current record.

So my onVisible property is set to
If(IsMatch(SharePointIntegration.Selected.'Accident Report Status',"LineManager"),Set(varFormTab,"Line Manager"),If(IsMatch(SharePointIntegration.Selected.'Accident Report Status',"HSC"),Set(varFormTab,"HSC Evaluation"),Set(varFormTab,"Employee")))

but it the next problem is that if evaluates the if statement before it loads the form and therefore every single time its set to "Employee"

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@Dhiran

Try removing the second If() statement. In PowerApps, the If Statement looks like this

If( Condition1, ThenResult1, [Condition2, ThenResult2] ... [, DefaultResult)

So you chain conditions with the required result you want

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