Hello,I'm looking to create an entry in my sharepoint list and then open it using a single button in my app. The reason being, I want the record

Solved: Patching and Opening Incidents in Powerapps

It sounds like you have a good approach in mind.

You can use the Patch function to create a new entry in your SharePoint list and then immediately navigate to that new entry using the ID that's been assigned. Here's an example formula:

// Create a variable to store the new incident record
//Set(gloNewIncident, Patch(YourSharePointList, Defaults(YourSharePointList), { Status: "New" }));
//or

Set(gloNewIncident, Patch(YourSharePointList, { Status: "New" }));
//primary key ID omitted 2 arg version of Patch, so it has to be { ID: IdOfExistingItem, Status: "New" } to modify existing record. When the ID: IdOfExistingItem part is not included, or the value of ID: is provided as Blank(), then this always creates a new record in 2 arg version of Patch

// Navigate to your detail screen and use Argument #3 to update the varSelectedIncident context variable in the scope of YourDetailScreen
Navigate(YourDetailScreen, ScreenTransition.None, {varSelectedIncident: gloNewIncident})

In this formula example, YourSharePointList should be replaced with the name of your SharePoint list, YourDetailScreen should be replaced with the name of the screen where you want to display the details of the new record, and varSelectedIncident is the name of the context variable you should use on the detail screen to access the new record's details. The third argument of Navigate (optional) is used to provide the context variables to update in the destination screen.

Want to just use the global variable directly instead of use context variables?

Do this

// Create a variable to store the new incident record
//Set(gloNewIncident, Patch(YourSharePointList, Defaults(YourSharePointList), { Status: "New" }));
//or

Set(gloNewIncident, Patch(YourSharePointList, { Status: "New" }));
//primary key ID omitted 2 arg version of Patch, so it has to be { ID: IdOfExistingItem, Status: "New" } to modify existing record. When the ID: IdOfExistingItem part is not included, or the value of ID: is provided as Blank(), then this always creates a new record in 2 arg version of Patch

// Navigate to your detail screen 
Navigate(YourDetailScreen, ScreenTransition.None)

//from a property you want use it directly in detail screen such as a Form's Item property, etc.
gloNewIncident

This formula should create a new record in your SharePoint list with the status "New", store that new record in the gloNewIncident global variable, then navigate to YourDetailScreen and have gloNewIncident be updated into context variable varSelectedIncident (if you want to use Navigate's 3rd argument) so that you can display its details using context variable, or just use gloNewIncident directly if you want and omit this third argument from Navigate.

See if it helps @cborde3