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Dear all

 

Looking for some advice.

 

I have developed a timesheet app for my staff. Its connected to an excel sheet via OneDrive for Business.

The excel sheet has one row for each day of the year and has 7 columns against which time can be logged.

For 6 of these columns, projects are selected from tables of company-wide projects via dropdown menus. So far so good.

 

For the last column, I want projects to be selected from a user-defined table, from within the app.

Ideally, I would have one screen within the app where the user has a table of their own personal projects. This table would then feed a dropdown in the timesheet editscreen. 

 

I have tried to insert a new screen, added a datatable, but this is just a static table and I cant work out how the user would add rows/edit rows of this table. It doesn't look like this is the right solution, but all help files point me in this direction. I want the user to be able to type in new entries and remove entries from this user defined table, so that when they need to log time against the 7th column, they can choose from their personal projects in dropdown menu.

 

Any advice if that makes any sense...

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    ShantanuP Profile Picture
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    Have you looked at creating and updating collections in PowerApps?

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/create-update-collection

     

    You will need to patch the original table with user selected value for the project to update the last column of the project table.

    You can read more about patch at below link:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-patch

     

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