Checkbox SharePoint column is showing up as drop down

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Did any fixed the issue of Checkbox column from drop to actual checkbox?

I createa a sharepoint choice column called "skills" as "checkbox" . However when I need connected/create a powerApp out of it, it shows as dropdown. The real requirement for me is that end user wnats to select multiple answers as a checkbox instead of dropdown .

Do any faced similar scenario? how can I convert dropdown to checkbox with multiple values selection?

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Hi @rajkumar88 ,
Could you tell me how do you set the choice column as check box?
As far as I know, you could only set the choice column as drop down or radio.
If you choose radio, you could only choose one value of the choice.
If you choose drop down, you could set it to multiple choice or not.
If you set the choice to multiple choice, the choice column will display as combo box by default in PowerApps. This allows users multiple choice.
If you want to use check box for multiple choice, I'm afraid it's not suppoerted to update multiple choice. I suggest you change this field to text type.
Here's a doc about how to use check box(multiple choice) to update text type for your reference:
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/multivaluedchoicesinforms/

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Community Support Team _ Phoebe Liu

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Well not sure why it looks different for you. If you see my screen shot, I can able to create a choice column with "Checkbox" type. And yes, we can create choice column in that way.

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By the way thanks for sharing the link. It did fixed my issue for now.

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That is 100% amateur hour from MS, they give you a choice in the list settings when you create the column, but its a fake choice as you actually only have 2 choices and not three.

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