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Hi All,

Please refer the screenshot wherein the last part of the selected choices show up as "...".

Is there no way to wrap it? It has to remain choice field as we have a dropdown here for multi-select fields to choose from.

@RandyHayes Can you please check this?

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@Anonymous

This is a label or TextInput control? It does not appear to be a dropdown or anything.

If it is a label, then you can turn the Wrap on.

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@RandyHayes It's a combo-box

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@Anonymous

Ah, gotcha...I should have known from before. It is just in View mode!

So, there is no way to wrap text in the combobox. The only real option you would have would be to use a label which does have a wrap capability.

You can do some switching of controls based on the form mode.

So for example, you can add a label to that datacard with the following things done:

- Set the Visible property formula to : Parent.DisplayMode = DisplayMode.View

- Set the Wrap on (true)

- Set the Text property to : Concat(yourCombobox.SelectedItems, Role & ", ") (I believe it was Role in the selectedItems, if not, change to the proper column name)

The, set the Combobox Visible property to:

!(Parent.DisplayMode = DisplayMode.View)

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@RandyHayes Awesome, that worked
2 challenges however:
1) Field alignment is distorted- you see how the left field is upper and this one came down
2) Is there a way to auto-increase the height of the label so that the text looks nice- text is fitting in but not visible from top & bottom due to height

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Yes, you can turn the AutoHeight property on (true). You can also make the overflow scrollable by setting the Overflow property to Overflow.Scroll.

You'll also probably want the label to conform to the location of the combobox. So, you can set the Y property of the label to yourCombobox.Y and the X property to yourCombobox.X and the width to yourCombobox.Width

Just keep in mind that once you set the X, Y and Width properties...if you move the label control or change the size in any way, PowerApps will wipe out that formula and replace with where you moved it. So get it set up as you like and then set those if needed.

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Am super happy 😄! Thanks, i will be posting few more today

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@Randy A minor challenge- the height became half if there were less selections with AUTO HEIGHT being true
I tried playing smart by trying to count the number of combo box items and turning auto height on if items are more than 4- not sophisticated i know- but it doesn't even work.
Any alternate?

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Yes, changing the AutoHeight like that doesn't work.

In looking at that image though, I would instead change the top and bottom padding of the label to give you a label the size you want when it is only one unwrapped line.

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Genius!

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