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Error message when submitting an edit form that contains a combobox

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I have an Edit screen that contains a combobox. When I want to modify data of a specific record without touching/changing the value of the combobox, I get the following message:

 

An entry is required or has an invalid value. Please correct and try again.

 

The items of the combobox are filled based upon the user:

Filter(Addresses1; Driver.Text in Driver)

The Update syntax of the DataCard is:

ComboBox1.Selected.Address

The combobox actions set are:

Default = 

DeaultSelectedItems = [ThisItem.LeaveAddress]

 

So, I left 'Default' blank.

 

When I reselect the value that is shown in the combobox field, then there is no error message when submitting the form. Still, this should not be the way of working.

 

Any suggestions on how to solve this issue? Thanks in advance !

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Coming back to my post earlier today, I found out why I got the message...for the combobox field I set the 'required'-option to true. Appearantly, this caused the error. Making this field not required solved the problem.

     

    Still, I am curious to find out why there is an error message. It should be possible to set a combobox field as required.

    Has someone been able to reproduce a similar issue? 

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    Remy_0722 15 on at
    if you ever are in a situation where your field needs to be required and it's showing an error when submitting. 
    (because it's required and there's a default selected item but powerapps does not want to recognize that as a selected value even there's something selected)
     
    then you can use this in the Card->Required-> 
    CountRows(YourComboBox.SelectedItems)<1 
     
    this means:
    -if nothing selected then countrows=0 it's <1 so it will be required
    -if something selected manually countrows=1 it's not <1 so it will not be required
    -if something selected (not by you, by a default set up) (our case) then 
    countrows will also be=1 and it's not <1 so it will not be required
     
    if you dont do this and something is selected by default (not you) it will be considered
    empty field eventhough there's something selected.
     

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