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Combo Box Default Values Randomly Don't Load

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I'm building my first Power App to help do a user audit. Managers will be able to review their direct reports and validate that they have the correct role(s) assigned.  This is driven by a Sharepoint List and is presented as a gallery/grid with one employee per row and a button to approve each row.  I have a dropdown that allows the user to filter the Gallery by Approval Status: All, Approved, Unapproved. 

 

The issue I'm having is the Combo Box is randomly not having any default selected values loaded.  Switching between the Approved/Unapproved Statuses sometimes fixes it and sometimes it works perfectly on loading. I also get mixed results (see below) where a few rows have values selected and others are empty.  I ran Monitor and the expected values are being returned.  I have spent hours researching this but haven't found a solution.  I would love some help!

Role(s) Combo Box settings:
Items: Choices('Framework User List'.NewRole)
DefaultSelectedItems: ThisItem.NewRole

 

Filter: Unapproved

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Filter: ALL

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  • Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,970 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi @lorenius 

     

    Unfortunately this (to me) sounds like a timing issue. Meaning that the Form etc was loaded before these are triggering.

     

    Now that would explain some of it. What doesn't make sense, is when you say you change the Sort, which should change the output of the Gallery items and therefore "should" cause them to reload.

     

    Questions:

    1. Are there selectable values in there but NOT the defaultselecteditems showing??? Just want to validate that the values load

     

    2. if you going back and forth between selecting a row etc does it resolve itself? So where it says "All" in the second picture, does it ever fix itself and overtime it shows all or some of the default items?

     

    But, if it happens when you reload the Gallery data and you are NOT changing screens, then I have one more question. Is this the MODERN or non-modern version.

     

    If its the Modern control, please dont use it.


    If I have helped you, I would really appreciate if you please Mark my answer as Resolved/Answered, and give it a thumbs up, so it can help others

    Cheers

    Thank You
    Michael Gernaey MCT | MCSE | MCP | Self-Contractor| Ex-Microsoft
    https://gernaeysoftware.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgernaey

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