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I am working on creating an "Intake" form in Power Apps for a department that has 5 different teams.
There are 11 questions/fields that are common to all teams, one field allows the user to select the team to assign the intake item to.
Each team has a unique set of fields.

 

I was requested to open the form displaying the common fields, then when the user selects the team, the team specific fields are displayed. Everything is saved to a single SharePoint list.

 

Currently, I have a single form containing about 100 fields. The 11 common fields, plus the team specific fields.
I was thinking that I would hide/show data cards using "Visible = If(".
This does work but I get a lot of errors: "Incompatible Types for comparison. These types can't be compared: Error, Boolean".
Something I have not tested yet is if a 'hidden' field is a required field, will I get an error on saving?

 

My question - is this a sound approach or should I be using separate forms for each team?
When a user fills in the 11 common fields, selects a team and clicks 'Next', it opens the team specific form?

I wasn't sure if using multiple forms would be impacted saving to a common List. (Affecting issues with reporting

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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  • Nogueira1306 Profile Picture
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    Here:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s391rMNRbmA

     

    Check that form.

     

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  • RandyHayes Profile Picture
    76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @mwyller1 

    In general, you can use one form for all of this.  Setting the visible property of datacards is a good approach.  Having any fields required at the datalist level, is a bad idea!  

     

    You can, however, augment the primary form with sub forms.  The concept is based on splitting a form properly.  You can learn more about that in this video.  The concept would only change because you would display a subform as specific to the team that you want to display.  But there would still be one master form.

     

    I hope this is helpful for you.

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