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I have a single line of text datacard that I want to use to display the name of the user who makes a decision/approval. The decision choice is made from a drop down. Right now when a user makes a decision, their name is captured and displayed on the text field...I then use a patch statement to save the data in my SharePoint list. This is working just fine, however if I go to view the item that was approved, the approvers name is not being displayed on the form...though the data is in the list. Here is what my setup looks like...

in the default property for my text datacard...

If(
 myForm.Mode = FormMode.New,
 User().FullName,
 ThisItem.'My Text Column'
)

and the update of this text datacard...

myColumn.Value

Then in the OnSelect of my dropdown, I have this..

UpdateContext({varSelectedUser:
  {
    Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(User().Email),
    DisplayName: User().FullName,
    Email: User().Email
  }
 }

);

I also have the value property of my control set to

varSelectedUser.DisplayName

What am I doing wrong? How do I get this to

1) capture the name,

2) patch it, and

3) display the name when the item is being viewed?

The first two parts seem to be working okay, but I can't get the last part to work.

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Hi @Spawn10,

Your post to be a duplicate of this thread.

Without overly complicating this, you have data in SharePoint that is not displaying in a (Modern) Text Input control in Power Apps ? I assume here that you want to also display it immediately when the dropdown is selected as well as when the record is in View or Edit Mode. If all of this is true, then the Value needs to be (using your field name)

Coalesce(
   varSelectedUser.DisplayName,
   ThisItem.YourTextFieldName
)

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