BUG: Functions Lost when Grouping / Ungrouping Controls

[ericonline]

After a long day of PowerApping and making great progress on a complex app, I ran into a HUGE snag. 

I think maybe all Grouped elements receive the same Visibility when Grouped. This is not GOOD. Especially if you have Controls with custom visibility set.

• I use the asterisks on form fields to drive a progress bar
• The asterisk visibility depends on a variable and the content of the field (IsBlank, etc.)
• After a bunch of work on other areas of the app, I revisited the form and noticed progress bar was not working
• Looked at each asterisk and ALL OF THE AND FUNCTIONS I had created to control visiblitly were gone and only the variable name remained. 
• 
• THE GOOD: 
  • I was able to CTRL+Z my way back to the critical change (about 100 CTRL + Z's !) and copy down all my AND functions into a OneNote
  • 
• THE BAD: 
  • When attempting to CTRL + Y my way back to current state, the app got stuck in a loop and just says "Redoing changes" every 6-7 times I click CTRL + Y. 
  • I lost a lot of diverse work (creating new vars, creating new menus, etc.) that is going to be hard to redo

Be careful when grouping / ungrouping items, you may lose custom Visibility you set on individual controls. 

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PS: Please consider voting for my BUG BOUNTY idea: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/BUG-BOUNTIES/idi-p/129616#M5463

[ericonline]

Looking closer at this...

Originally each Control had something to the effect of: 

And(
    varNewPopup, 
    dropdown.Selected.Value = " ")

The issue occurred after renaming "varNewPopup" to "varNewEvalPopup" and Grouping a bunch of Controls together. Not sure which action was actually responsible. 

[v-xida-msft]

Hi @ericonline,

Could you please share a bit more about the issue within your app?

I have made a test on my side and don't have the issue that you mentioned. Please take a try to modify your formula as below:

And(
    varNewEvalPopup, 
    dropdown.Selected.Value = " "
)

If you have renamed your variable name, please also modify the variable name within the formula where you reference to the variable.

Best regards,

Kris

[ericonline]

Hi @v-xida-msft. Thank you for the response. 

The bug is: 

• The control WAS originally set to: 

  • And(
        varNewEvalPopup, 
        dropdown.Selected.Value = " "
    )

• With all controls NOT visible, I changed the variable name from varNewEvalPopup to varNewEval AND ungrouped/regrouped the applicable Controls
• THEN later when working with the Controls again, ALL original code was overwritten by the new variable name ONLY. 
• All original code shown above was GONE and only varNewEval was set.

I've been able to duplicate this on my end.