Problem with displaying variables outside of PowerApps

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Hello everyone,

I have built an app to help with cash handling in a shop, specifically I am having an issue with the safe count aspect.

In the PowerApps canvas studio preview and when I launch the app from PowerApps directly everything works fine, but, when I embed the app onto a SharePoint page variables don't seem to show.

in the PowerApps canvas studio it looks like this:

and when it's embedded in a SharePoint page it looks like:

When I enter a value into a text input field it immediately goes blank. When I click submit the SharePoint list I'm patching to updates as I would expect it to.

an example text input:

on change function is:

Set(bulk2pound,'textinput£2coinsfullbags'.Text);Reset('textinput£2coinsfullbags')

the default value for a text input is:

Text(Value(bulk2pound,"en-GB"),"£#,###,##0.00")

The visible value is set to true.

Each darker box is a collection but even when I add a field outside of a collection it does the same thing.

I have tried all the normal things:

saved and published the app multiply times.
triple checked the SharePoint page is displaying the most up to date version
checked chrome is up to date
ran it in edge and had the same problems
I added a label to show a variable independently of the text input and it has the same problem.
Tried a label on a different screen and it's the same problem.
I have searched everywhere I can think of for a solution but I don't really know how to phrase the problem - any help would be greatly appreciated.

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WarrenBelz 156,327 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @DPportsmouth ,

What is the Item of the Form you are displaying?

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Hi Warren,
Thank you for coming back to me, it's not a form it's just lots of textinput controls which then patch into a sharepoint list.

this is the treeview:
which is this container:

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Hi @DPportsmouth ,

Then the next question that follows is the Default of the controls - they need to get their values from somewhere - what is bulk2pound ?

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The user inputs a value into the textinput which then stores it as a variable. the text box resets itself and displays the stored variable as text with a custom format.

So if I enter in 2 into the £2 textinput powerapps stores it as a variable and then displays it back at £2.00
then becomes

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Hi @DPportsmouth ,

I just put a Text box with your code (actually the below), but the same in the Default

Set( bulk2pound, Self.Text ); Reset(Self)

in a test list and it worked perfectly

It should work - have you tried re-adding the text boxes?

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Hi @DPportsmouth ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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