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I am trying to do something very simple with the Set function. I am setting a global variable called SelectedRecord to a Record in a gallery and then setting the Item property of an edit form to SelectedRecord. I have 2 galleries and when the user selects the record it sets the variable to the selected record. The galleries use the same edit form when selected.

It works as intended on the first gallery but on the second, the variable doesn't seem to update to the new selected record. It is updating the fields in the form to the last selected record from the first gallery. Any ideas or is it just a bug?

Here is the code I am using:

Set(SelectedRecord, ThisItem); EditForm(TitleForm); EditForm(SeeForm); EditForm(EngageForm); EditForm(ChooseForm); EditForm(AchieveForm); Navigate(ChangeEditScreen, None)

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Hi @Anonymous,

I think the issue here should be mostly related with the form control.

To have the form control work normally, it would require the record under the item property of the form control is one of the records from the Data source table configured under the From data Source property.

The structure of the record should match.

Besides, please don't use Thisitem, instead, swtich the formula as below:

Set(SelectedRecord, gallery.Selected);

ThisItem could only be referenced within the form control.

For more information about form control, please check:

Understand data forms in Microsoft PowerApps

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Michael
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I agree that it should work. I changed my syntax to Gallery.Selected from ThisItem and it still has the same behavior.

On the form that is displaying the wrong record i also have a label that outputs "SelectedRecord.Title" and it produces the right title but the form has the wrong data. SelectedRecord is my global variable.

The form that produces the wrong record under Items also has SelectedRecord.

I'm lost for what to do now. Do I need to reset my forms before I display them? Right now I am only using EditForm(Form).

Maybe I wasn't super clear. I have to galleries that are subset of the same data.