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I'm running into an issue when I am editing a record from the gallery. To give a bit of background, is that the customer record pulls the "Area" from a table within SQL where each Area is represented by a number (i.e. United States = 3, Canada = 1, United Kingdom = 10)

AreaID	Area
1	Canada
3	United States
10	United Kingdom

Under Update under the card, I have CountryAreaField.Text which is where it is throwing the error at

Under Default I have the following code below

LookUp(collectCountryListView,DefaultCountry = DropdownDefaultCountry.SelectedText.Value,Area)/*LookUp('[dbo].[vw_CountryList]',DefaultCountry = DropdownDefaultCountry.SelectedText.Value,Area)*/

I've tried changing it to Value(CountryAreaField.Text) though that doesn't seem to do anything. Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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BCBuizer 22,833 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi @LyonsBI_BRL ,

Look like a mismatch of columns.

Can you try:

LookUp(collectCountryListView,DefaultCountry = DropdownDefaultCountry.Selected.AreaID,Area)

If this doesn't work, can you share what the Items property of the DorpdownDefaultCountry looks like? For this to work, the user needs to select a text, but the dropdown should return the AreaID when referenced.

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@BCBuizer Just tried that and this time I get a warning on the DataCard. This change was made in the Default part of the card. Also my mistake it's NOT a dropdown it's a card. As it's referencing another card dropdown menu called DropdownDefaultCountry. The Items field calls the collection of collectCountryListView

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Hi @LyonsBI_BRL ,

I noticed there's a typo in your formula: SelectedText, where it should say Selected .

Can you please share what the Items property of DropdownDefaultCountry looks like and also which columns you have in collectCountryListView to get an idea of how the data is structured?

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@BCBuizer figured it out. Within the Update field for the Area label, the Update field should have been coded as below
LookUp(collectCountryListView,DefaultCountry = DropdownDefaultCountry.SelectedText.Value,AreaID)
By doing so this recorded the ID of the Area within the table
and the red X has now gone away

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