Form (Preview) bug - date picker holds onto old data when form in View mode

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Discovered a problem with the Form (Preview) control (specifically the date picker) in PowerApps (Canvas).

Issue: Within the Form (Preview) the date picker control holds onto previous record data if selecting a new record whose date field is empty. It should instead display no date. Only occurs when form is in VIEW mode, not EDIT mode. In EDIT mode the date picker will correctly display no date if the date is empty.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create PowerApp (Canvas) with a gallery connected to a dataverse table, and a Form (Preview) which is also connected to that table and uses the gallery to select current item.
Table should have records including a date record, some with dates selected, some empty.
Obviously the Form (Preview) will have a date picker.

2. Run the app.

3. Ensure Form (Preview) is in VIEW mode. Does not occur in EDIT mode.

In the gallery, select an item whose date field holds data (date is not blank). Form's date picker will display that item. Eg. "Mon, Aug 12, 2024".

4. In the gallery, select a record whose date field is empty. Form's date picker will not refresh and continue to display previous "Mon, Aug 12, 2024" data (holding onto old data). It should instead be blank as per the current item.

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Power Apps Pro Dev & ISV

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,433 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

Please share your Forms Item property and that specific controls Default Date

You can always add a reset(datapicket) in your Gallery OnSelect.

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CU23070549-0 4 on at

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(In response to FLMike -

"You can always add a reset(datapicket) in your Gallery OnSelect."

Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried this and while datePicker is not a resettable control, we can reset the entire form, but even that does not work. The datePicker holds the last date it has and keeps displaying it until another date is provided. Note this only happens in 'View' mode. If the form is in Edit Mode then it always refreshes with the latest data.

Best temporary workaround is to make the control not visible when its blank. This works.
Code for date picker's visible field:
If(IsBlankOrError(ThisItem.'Date of Incident'), false,true)

The setup is very simple for testing this bug.

Forms Item property

galleryRecords.Selected

Forms Data source

IntegrityManagerReports   // (a dataverse table)

Gallery's Items property

IntegrityManagerReports   // same dataverse table

Date Control's Default Date
The date picker has no 'default' field available, but its "SelectedDate" is set to:
Parent.Default

And the parent (Card) has its Default set to
ThisItem.'Date of Incident'    (a date column in the dataverse table)

Can we raise this bug with the developers? Perhaps I should log a ticket via the PowerPlatform portal.

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Here's a screenshot showing PowerApps knows the date is Blank, yet the control is still showing the previous date. Clearly a bug with the control itself.

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Ravindra Jadhav 342 Moderator on at

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It is preview feature try to avoid using it. I also face same issue while working with new form preview

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