Data item not refreshing when switching between pages

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Need help troubleshooting an issue. My canvas app has 3 pages.

1. Page 1 is a Gallery of items, user selects an item to edit. Datasource is a SharePoint list. When the user selects an item, a variable with the item ID is set

2. Page 2 uses Edit Form, with the item being the one selected on page 1. There are several fields the user can update on this page. When the form inputs are valid, the save button is enabled and the user can save the form. To illustrate, one of the fields the user can edit on this page is called 'Status'.

3. Page 3 uses Edit Form, with the same item being the one selected on page 1, or the item they were editing on page 2. There are several fields the user can update on this page, they are different fields than the ones presented on page 2. On this page, the field called 'Status' is read-only. It's an editable field on page 2, a read-only field on page 3.

Issue: when a user changes the 'Status' value on page 2, saves the form, then goes to page 3, the read-only value presented in the 'Status' field is not showing the latest value that was saved when the user made the update on page 2.

On page 3, I set the 'On Visible' property to Refresh(datasource). This has not had any effect.

Is there a way I can ensure the field values on page 3 reflect the values the user saved on page 2?

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WarrenBelz 155,927 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi allan_t

A couple of things here - you can also use Reset(FormName), but also what is the Item of the Form (is it a direct query on the data source) ?

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Thanks @WarrenBelz. The Reset(formname) resets the form back to default values which I don't want to do, I want the form to refresh the values from the datasource.

In the form properties, the datasource is the SharePoint list. The item property is the variable that stored the item ID when the user selected the item from gallery on page. 1

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Hi allan_t

That is what I suspected - you would need to reset the Variable, however a better idea (which also addresses a few other potential issues) is to set a Variable when you select the record from the gallery (you may already do this)

Set( gblRecord, ThisItem )

and then have the Item of the Form
LookUp( SPList, ID = gblRecord.ID )

You will find this automatically takes care of refreshing once you update the data source.

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