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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hi - I have a gallery which repeats fields brought in by a data connection. One of these fields is a telephone number. I want to simply add the text "Tel:" before the numbers. I have added a Text box (not a Text box from the text box controls) to the template (top line) in the gallery but it's not repeating. How?

Thanks,

 

Edit: Found out - you need to add the text box control instead of the static text box. I also replaced the default value with "Tel". For some reason it wasn't working before I restarted PowerApps. A bug I presume.

 

C

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    v-monli-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi C,

     

    As far as I know, when talking to "text box" in PowerApps, the text box control is the only available feature. So I'm not quite sure what you mean by this issue. Maybe some screenshots would help us to understand better?

     

    Regards,

    Mona

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi - I put my Edit in to describe how I found out what to use. Thanks for your input M.

     

    C

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