Manually Entry plus Selected Items in ComboBox

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Hi there,

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I have a Combo box with a bunch of items, I would like to select 1,2 or the items and also type just in case my own text

i.e

item1

item2

item3

Result:

item1, item 3, Hi my own,

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

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eka24 20,923 on at

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Your question may not be complete. Do you intend saving or just searching.

On mixing your own items with what is on the Datasource, that is not possible.

However you can search or type in the combobox any word even if it not in the datasource but cannot mixed it.

Example you can type Item 3 separately, but cannot search Item3, Item 3 together

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Sajarac 3,271 on at

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Thank you, I would like to search and save and in the event that an item is not listed be saved along with the selected items. that is why the manual entry is required. I am trying to avoid having a separate text field then concatenate with the combobox

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eka24 20,923 on at

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No you cannot mixed it.

You can type ABKCD and save.

You can make your selection of Item1;Item2 and save

But not Item1;Item2;ABKCD because ABKCD is not in your list.

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@sajarac

Unfortunately that is not possible today. You have to use a separate text box to be able to concatenate your text to the selected items from the drop down.

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This is something you might consider and explore.

Assume you have a SharePoint list with the Title column being a list of countries.

In a Power Apps app bind to that list

Added a button and create a collection ClearCollect(colCountries,Countries.Title)

Add a combo box, set the items property to the collection colCountries.

Add a button with this for the OnSelect Property

If(IsBlank(LookUp(colCountries,Title=ComboBox1.SearchText)),Patch(colCountries,Defaults(colCountries),{Title:ComboBox1.SearchText}))

If the SearchText returns no results, add the SearchText to the collection. Later the List can be updated to include the added values.

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Sajarac 3,271 on at

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I will definitely try that!

Thank you very much for your help.

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Mossie 42 on at

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Hi Folks, a rookie here,

I want to be able to manually type text into a combo box (cbGeogRemit) and have this text value passed to my SP list (RLCStore) in my choice column GeogRemit when the 'Save' button is clicked. I've tried to copy a solution from 8 minutes in to Shane Youngs video here PowerApps use Combobox search text to add a dynamic value to SharePoint Choice column - YouTube. I've copied this patch but I'm getting an error that's it's looking for a table (as I'm using a combo box, but Shane is also!), not a record. Could you suggest how to correct my patch to include a table please? Here's my patch:

Patch(
RLCStore,
RLCGallery.Selected,
{
field_30: {
value: cbGeogRemit.SearchText,
'@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference"
}
}
)

This code should allow either selecting the predefined values OR entering text in the Find Items box.
Thanks all

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