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I'm looking to register students by creating a gallery (done).

The teacher has to press a button saying whether they are present, absent or late.

However, I'm struggling to make the buttons behave independent to each other in each row. Everytime I create a variable it controls all buttons within a gallery.

I'd also like to upload all answers at the end pressing a submit button. Is this possible?

I'd like the buttons to behave like on the video attached. Thank you in advance for any help.

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WarrenBelz 153,507 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@jjanowskiRR ,

If you want to use the model I am suggesting, you will need to re-think the gallery structure as you are going to need a field for status to be able to both Patch to and also I assume write back to your data source. You could use AddColumns

AddColumns( Distinct( Attendance_3, Students ), "Status", "", "Date", Today() )

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just to give an update - I've been unable to make this work as I'm using this formula to ensure I only have one of each student present in the gallery:
ForAll(Distinct(Attendance_3,Students),Value)
the gallery doesn't like this and I'm unable to set up any "variables" as it seems to not know which record it is referencing.

Here is how I've set up the list

Student. Status. Date
S1. Present. 10/4
S2. Absent. 10/4
S3. Late 10/4
S1. Present. 11/4
S2. Absent. 11/4
S3. Late 11/4

My ultimate aim is to be able to take a register as a teacher but this is proving rather tricky. My work around is having each student as a field.

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@jjanowskiRR ,

Same principle - example on the No button

Patch( Attendance_3, ThisItem, {status: "Absent"} )

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I've made this work here:
Patch (Attendance_3, Defaults(Attendance_3), // Create a new entry { Students: ThisItem.Value, status: "Absent" } )
However, I'd like the teacher to be able to amend in the gallery for example. If a student is absent at time of register but comes in late I'd like the teacher to be able to amend the value from absent to late but then erase the absent mark and replace with the late in the list. Is this possible?

Thanks for taking the time to answer Warren

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Hi @jjanowskiRR ,

The only way you are going to do that is link the button to a field in the gallery, so if you had a Text field called Attendance, you would Patch it (example)

Patch( DataSource, ThisItem, {Attendance: "Yes"} )

then the Fill of the Yes button

If( ThisItem.Attendance = "Yes", Color.DarkGreen, Color.YourNormalColor )

So whatever was in Attendance would determine the Fill of the relevant button.

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