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Populate dropdown with PowerBIIntegration data?

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Hi!

I am new to powerapps and trying to figure out the best practices for my first app which will be integrated into Power BI.

The main idea of my app is to collect comments from the users via form in which I need to have several dropdowns with the data fields that I have in Power BI and later collected data is stored in Excel.

So, I am trying to create a dropdown at form screen and set column from PowerBIIntegration datasource as an AllowedValues, but nothing seems to work. Is it even possibe to do it?

 

Thank you!

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    v-xida-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @bonifacious 

    Could you please share a screenshot about your issue?

    Do you want to populate a Dropdown box with values from the PowerBIIntegration.Data?

    Further, could you please share a bit more about the data set you used in your Power BI report? Is it a Excel table?

     

    Based on the issue that you mentioned, if you want to populate a Dropdown box with values from the PowerBIIntegration.Data, please take a try with the following workaround:

    1. I assume that the Data set you used in your Power BI report is a Excel table, please consider add the corresponding Excel table as data source within your embedded canvas app. Then connect the Edit form to the Excel table data source.

    2. Within your Edit form, select the field data card which you want to configure as a Dropdown box. Then edit field, expand the corresponding field, then switch the Control Type to "Allowed values":

    1.JPG

    3. Set the Items property of the Dropdown box to following:

    [@PowerBIIntegration].Data.ColumnName

    set the Update property of the field data card which contains above Dropdown box to following:

    DataCardValue3.Selected.ColumnName

    Note: The ColumnName represents the column in your Excel table, which you want to display within the Dropdown box. If above formula could not work in your app, please set the Items property of Dropdown box to following:

    Distinct('Your Excel Table', ColumnName)

    set the Update property of the field data card which contains above Dropdown box to following:

    DataCardValue3.Selected.Result

    Please consider take a try with above solution, check if the issue is solved.

     

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    Best regards, 

  • bonifacious Profile Picture
    40 on at

    Thank you, @v-xida-msft !

    Basically I have 2 datasources for the app:
    1) PowerBIIntegration from a reports which uses Oracle database.
    2) Excel in which I want to store the results of the submitted form.

    I do want some fields of the form to be populated by the PowerBIIntegration data and save them in Excel stored in OneDrive. I tried to add PowerBIIntegration as a datasource for values, but can't see anything (see attachment). Do I need to connect to Oracle in order to see data since the Power BI's datasource is Oracle.

     

    Thanks!

    PowerBIIntegration.PNG

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