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Really need a gallery inside card of form

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Hello

 

I have had issues where a Gallery inside a card of a form shows no data even when bound correctly

 

Has anyone ever managed to get this working?

 

Having the gallery outside my form is really not an option

 

Paul

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  • Drrickryp Profile Picture
    Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @paulinuk 

    While it is possible to put a gallery in a form by cutting and pasting it, it is not recommended because it will not behave like a normal gallery.  I would consider another alternative. 

  • paulinuk Profile Picture
    260 on at

    What other alternative is there?  Its really bad that something so key is not possible?

     

    I have a form that has cards on in it and I need to display some of the data in a gallery

     

  • Drrickryp Profile Picture
    Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @paulinuk 

    There are only two things that are important in a card, the first is the Default property of the control in the card and the other is the Update property of the card itself.  In a sense, a combobox holds a table and shows a record.  All of the fields in the record in the window are accessible by reference.  Since I have no idea what you are trying to accomplish, there isn't much that I can advise you except that galleries don't function normally inside a data card on a form. 

  • paulinuk Profile Picture
    260 on at

    I want to have 2 galleries one to show log information and one to show attachments 

     

    Having a situation where I can’t use a form with cards because of this is really bad I don’t get why Microsoft don’t class this is as an issue and why it’s still not been fixed 

  • Drrickryp Profile Picture
    Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @paulinuk 

    This has been referred to the Ideas section of the forum in the past and there is a thread there about it.  

  • paulinuk Profile Picture
    260 on at

    Ok I didnt see that but its not going to help in my situation and Im assuming even though its a massive limitation its probably been outstanding for a long time so probably wont be done

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

    @paulinuk 

    What @Drrickryp mentions is correct...Galleries inside a Form datacard are flakey at best.  You can put them in, but they do not respond the same way they do when outside the form.

     

    One other alternative is to have the gallery outside of the form and align it in a way that it all flows with the form.  There is nothing magical about the controls in a form, and the entire form can derive all of its values from controls outside of the form, so in this case, the controls would be outside of the form.

     

    Just thought I would pitch in some info.

    I hope this is helpful for you.

  • paulinuk Profile Picture
    260 on at

    Ok thanks it’s just such a bad and annoying restriction

     

    My problem is that my form has a lot of controls so the user can scroll down to see everything which works well but this is not possible for the gallery controls ie I wanted the user to be able to scroll through as normal

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

    @paulinuk 

    Yes, to scroll the form and have a gallery that is outside of the form, yet appears as part of the form, then you need to use a scrollable canvas object.  The only way to get one is to create a scrollable screen, then cut the canvas object from that new screen, add it to your existing screen and then you will have a datacard in that canvas control that will be where you put your form.  Normally you would then cut your form and paste it into the datacard, but (thanks to an unannounced change that Microsoft made which destroyed this ability) you need to add a container control to the datacard and then paste the form into the container.  

    Then you resize the form to not scroll itself, but instead the datacard is scrollable.  Then you place the gallery where you want and it will scroll with the form properly.

    It's a lot of steps, but it works perfectly and your gallery will then work properly.

  • paulinuk Profile Picture
    260 on at

    Ok I will give this a go

     

    where do I paste the canvas control?

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