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Patch to a lookup column

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I created a custom button in my command bar that opens up a new form with no fields defaulted. I want one field "Device Name" to have the value of the device that was selected from a gallery. I tried using this formula

and a few variations of this but I cannot get the value to patch to this field.

Does anyone have any experience with this or know if this is actually possible?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Drew Poggemann 9,287 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @AmariBarino ,

Have you reviewed the following (https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Patch-with-Lookup-field-and-Dataverse/td-p/822995)

Patch( 'Reservations', Defaults('Reservations'), { Name: "Product Reservation", Reservation: LookUp( Products, 'Device Name' = "Dell Laptop" ) } )

Looks pretty similar to your situation so I updated above to match. Let me know if this helps.

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AmariBarino 59 on at

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Thank you for your response Drew! Unfortunately this did not work for me. I don't know if I provided the correct information but this is the link I used when adding navigation to my custom button in a model driven app command bar. There is a powerfx formula to navigate to a new form with a field defaulted and that works if I use a regular text field. It just doesn't respond when I try to patch to a lookup field.

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mando643 26 on at

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Did you ever figure out a way to do this. Currently having the same issue.

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AmariBarino 59 on at

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Unfortunately not; I am going to assume that as of right now this is not possible to do.

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mando643 26 on at

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I had a work around. If you call "Self.Selected.Item.FieldName" it will return the GUID of the lookup. I created a field to store it then did a lookup through the flow on submission. I hid the GUID field in the form which is just a text field. Then you match that GUID to the lookup column in flow and it assign the lookup for you.

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AmariBarino 59 on at

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Oh, nice job! Where did you place the Self.Selected.Item.FieldName in your formula?

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mando643 26 on at

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Yes on the onSelect of the formula bar in the command bar for that button. It looked like this -
Navigate(
Patch(Defaults('Project Task Copies'), { 'Project GUID': Self.Selected.Item.Project, Division: Self.Selected.Item.Division}))

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