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Display (and Edit) Many-to-Many Relationships in Model-driven App

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Hi folks

 

I'm fairly new to to PowerApps and could do with a helping hand. I've tried to find the answer to this question but cannot find it on this community or elsewhere but unless I'm missing something, it seems quite important!

 

I am currently building a Model-driven App for the charity I work for. I have two custom entities - Case and Program. I want a many-to-many relationship between them (as several cases will be taking part in several programs). I've created the many-to-many relationship between these but I now want this to be easy for the user to add, create, manage etc. and the only way I can see them being able to do this is through the Related tab which isn't the easiest UX ever. Is this currently the main way to do this or have I missed something with forms to make it a bit more straightforward?

 

My workaround is to create several lookups on Case to connect them to several programs (which seems nicer for the user) but this seems like a terrible approach to data management so I'd rather avoid this.

 

Any suggestions!

 

Thanks

 

Joe

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    116 on at

    Replying to my own question here in case someone else comes across the problem and is looking for a sort of solution/alternative way of viewing.

     

    I discovered that once I have created any relationship (be it 1:N, N:N or N:1), I can then create a subgrid on a form which can then display related information. 

     

    So, for the above example, I have created a new tab on the Case file called 'Programs' which then displays all the programs a case is related to. I have also done the same on the Programs tab to display all the cases related to a specific program.

     

    Hope this helps anyone one day...and if anyone has any further suggestions, feel free to jump in!

  • v-siky-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @joew72 ,

     

    Thanks for sharing.

     

    Best regards,

    Sik

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