Deselect default gallery items

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Hi,

I am using PowerApps with SharePoint that includes Gallery and SubGallery.

Also trying to use Right arrow and Down arrow to show and hide SubGallery items but unsuccessful.

Importantly, I found that by default, first of the main gallery item is getting selected. Please refer to the screenshot below.

Can you please help me on this one to avoid any selection by default.

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RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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A Gallery always has something selected! You cannot make nothing selected by default.

If you want to avoid that, then you need to put your own selection action in place. Meaning, use the OnSelect of the gallery to assign the selected row to a variable. Then utilize that variable (instead of the ThisItem.IsSelected) to determine a selection.

For example, very common to use the TemplateFill property to change the row color:

If(ThisItem.IsSelected, Yellow, White)

Instead, utilize a variable of the record in the OnSelect - Set(glbRecord, ThisItem)

Then the TemplateFill would become:

If(ThisItem.ID = glbRecord.ID, Yellow, White)

And...never refer to yourGallery.Selected - as it will not be what you want. Instead refer to glbRecord for the selected record.

I hope this is helpful for you.

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SumanthDundi7 219 on at

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Thank you so much but sorry @RandyHayes , I am not able to understand your point. What I understood is that we cannot have nothing selected by default.

Can you please let me know as per my scenario.

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RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Yes, it was pretty much explained in my response. The point is, the gallery has a selection - always! If you don't want to use that (and you don't need to at all), then you can emulate it on your own.

The sample I provided give a good idea on how to emulate the selection yourself.

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Galleries actually can have nothing selected. You can do so by placing {} in your default property of the gallery and nothing will be selected by default. In this way you are telling your gallery that your default record is blank. You can add deeper logic in how to select items etc..as Randy explained to use variables and you can use logic such as switch / if to determine your default property based on other conditions. I know this is an older thread but wanted you to be aware the capability to select no records in a gallery is to use {} in the default property.

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