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Need an alternative to BrowseGallery1.Selected in an editform

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Under the item section, if I keep the BrowseGallery1.Selected as is, the screen navigates to the most recently selected entry on the browse screen.

When I remove (BrowseGallery1.Selected) the screen goes blank after I click save (SubmitForm(NewForm1)).

How can I have it so that the screen stays on the same record when the submit form function is run. So when a user is in this new entry screen they should be able to save without exiting the edit form screen. Like the difference between save, and save and quit.

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You can set the OnSuccess property to "EditForm(YourForm)." This will reload the form as an edit form with the updated properites.
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thanks for the quick response, unfortunately this solution runs into the same problem where nothing shows up after I submit the form.
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Ok, now I see your problem.
1. In Screen "OnVisible" UpdateContext({CurItem:BrowseGallery1.Selected})
2. In the form set "Item" = "CurItem"
3. In the form "OnSuccess" UpdateContext({CurItem:BrowseGallery1.LastSubmit})
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Hmm I'm getting an error for the item and OnSuccess for the form but the OnVisible for the screen shows no error
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What does the error say?
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Item: "The property expects Record values, but this rule produces incompatible Error values"

On Success: "The types of the specified context variables are incompatible with the types specified elsewhere"
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Hmmmm that is odd. I just tried it and it worked for me....

Maybe you could try this.

1. In Screen "OnVisible" UpdateContext({CurItem: LookUp( DataSource, BrowseGallery1.Selected.ID = ID})
2. In the form set "Item" = "CurItem"
3. In the form "OnSuccess" UpdateContext({CurItem: LookUp( DataSource, BrowseGallery1.LastSubmit.ID = ID)})

Where "ID" is the unique identifier for in the data source. This may fix the problem because it garentees that both records have the exact same schema.
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I wondered why it works for you and not for me so I created a new autogenerated powerapp but the problem prevails. Perhaps it`s something that comes with the auto generated app that I haven`t caught to erase.

I tried your second solution and now thers is an error on the OnSuccess of the form saying "Invalid argument type." Was I supposed to switch DataSource to the name of my data source? I tried doing it both ways

For the screen I added a bracket and changed the datasource to my datasource for it to get rid of the error "Invalid argument type" so for the OnVisible property I used
UpdateContext({CurItem: LookUp( proptest2, BrowseGallery1.Selected.ID = ID)})
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You need to substitute your datasource for "DataSource" and the you need to place the unique identifier column for the "ID" field.