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Hi Everyone,

I have two hidden fields in a form, whose values i want to change upon SubmitForm with a button press;

One is a date field which i want to update to Now()

The other is a binary choice - I have selected a default value but this isn't populating automatically. I would like to specify this value as it is a required field.

Also, I would like to update the date field to Now() on a button press when the entry has been selected on a table.

How would I go about updating these as/before the form submission?

Sorry for the newbie questions!

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Hi , @BATOU
First you need to all your need field in your Form control.

Then for your Date field to set to now() , you can use this expression in your DatePicker's Datacard - Update property:

And then you can set this DataCard - Visible to false to hide this DataCard.

For your Choice column , you can set the Combo box control - DefaultSelectColumns , For example:

And you can also set this DataCard - Visible to false to hide this DataCard.

Then you can use the SubmitForm(Form1) function to submit the Form data to your SharePoint list , the result is as follows:

If this reply can help you , you can click mark this reply as solution (Accept solution) which can help more people, thanks in advance!

Best Regards,

Yueyun Zhang

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