Detect when selected row in a data table is changed

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Hello

I want to display data using a data table.

The data table has a list of users

When the selected user is changed, I want to add the selected user's email address to a text box

Annoyingly there doesnt seem to be an event in Data Table for the selected row has been changed

How can I do this?

Paul

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BCBuizer 22,638 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @paulinuk ,

It is not possible to edit information in a data table, so I'm not sure how that links into the change of user you mentioned...

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Hi

I dont mean changing the user

I mean if there is a grid of 10 users, the first user will be selected by default

The user selects the third user, I want to update an edit box with that user's email address (Having the edit box tied to the table directly is not an option)

This box will be used for the user to either enter an email address manually or to populate it from the selected user in the data table, hence the reason for it not being possible to link the edit box to the data table directly

Paul

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BCBuizer 22,638 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @paulinuk,

I have made a quick test and it is not that hard to do with a Patch() function:

So first the user selects the row they want to update, then fill the new value and finally click the button to make the change.

The OnSelect property of the button will have to be adjusted to match your identifier names, but it does the trick for the test:

Patch(TEST,LookUp(TEST,Title=DataTable1.Selected.Title),{UserID : TextInput3.Text})

Please note this is for columns with a Text data type. If you are using a Person/Group type, you have to replace the TextInput for a PeoplePicker and adjust the Button.Onselect statement slightly to be able to handle Records.

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paulinuk 260 on at

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Hi

I don’t want the user having to click a button

Is there a solution that would avoid this?

im not using this to update the data

This is an email page so the user is clicking on the row for the user they want to email

Cheers

Paul

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BCBuizer 22,638 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi Paul,

Can you then please clarify what data type you are using? Text or Person/Group?

Also, do you want a Single or MultiSelect?

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paulinuk 260 on at

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Hi

Not sure what you mean here

I have a list of users that are being displayed in the data table

email address is text

So when a different user is selected in the grid I want to take that users email address and add it to the email address text box

So the user either enters an email address in the text box or selects a user from the table to fill it

Paul

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BCBuizer 22,638 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @paulinuk ,

I think the easiest way for this is to set the Default property to a variable that is then updated by either selecting an Email address in the DataTable, or by entering a text:

TextInput.Default = varEmail TextInput.OnChange = Set(varEmail,Self.Text) EmailColumn1.OnChange = Set(varEmail, DataTable.Selected.Email)

You may have to change some of the identifiers.

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