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I am creating a checklist that users fill out in PowerApps and can't figure out exactly how to do what the title says. I'll use the table below to better illustrate what I mean. This is built in a canvas app and there are two columns( In File and N/A) with a check box in each cell for every line item in the checklist. What the business has requested is that one or the other checkbox be required for every line item. Thanks to you some wonderful advice I was able to make the other fields in the form required but I am not sure how to make them conditionally required or not required based on the selection or non selection of the check box. Hopefully that makes sense. Any help is greatly appreciated as always. @wyotim Any thoughts? 😁
In File N/A
It's not liking my table. This is a screenshot of the two columns within the PowerApp.
Hey @CarlHRVA! If I am thinking about this correctly, I'm not sure how you would enforce the required quality aside from disabling the submit button if one or the other isn't selected. The issue with checkboxes/boolean values is that unchecked/false is a valid response. So disabling the submit button until one or the other is checked seems the best route to me. I'd love to see what other suggestions might pop up though!
If it isn't too much trouble, what about replacing the checkboxes with a radio control with In File and N/A as the values and a blank default value? Would that work on the data side? That would make it so you could use the required property and get the benefit of the form's native error handling. You could maybe hack it a bit by adding a field to your data source for that radio control (like a text field) and then have the radio control check the corresponding box so the boolean values in your data source still work.
That's what I've got off the top of my head. Let me know if it helps or not! I'd be happy to spin up a test app and see what we can do if neither of those work out. Cheers!
@wyotim Sorry for the delayed response. I'm going with option 1 of disabling the Submit button until one or the other is selected. This PowerApp is combined with a Flow that is turning their completed form into a Word document so this is the path of least resistance rather than making changes in the PowerApp, data source, and HTML. Thank you as always for a brilliant and thoughtful response!
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