Add a dropdown menu selection to a form in canvas app to update a text field in a SharePoint list

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Hello everyone,

In a canvas app, I have a gallery and an edit form that updates a SharePoint list, one of the fields in this list is a text field, but in the form I want to add a drop menu selection instead of a text box, so when a user updates this text field from the form he will have the menu to select preset items from this menu.

Is that possible?

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Drrickryp Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Unlock the card and hide the textinput box. Put your dropdown in the card and then click on the card and select the Update property. Delete the reference to the textbox and replace it with Dropdown.Selected.Value

Replace dropdown in the above with the actual name of your dropdown.

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Unlock the card and hide the textinput box. Put your dropdown in the card and then click on the card and select the Update property. Delete the reference to the textbox and replace it with Dropdown.Selected.Value

Replace dropdown in the above with the actual name of your dropdown.

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BCLS776 8,994 Moderator on at

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Yes, you can make this work properly by modifying the Update property of the datacard associated with the text field to something like:

Dropdown1.Selected.Text

Depending on how the dropdown's items are populated, sometimes you use .Value or .Result instead of .Text. Let the Intellisense feature help you complete that part of the argument.

Hope that helps,

Bryan

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Greg68 138 on at

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Thank you all this works!

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