Datatable and boolean confusion

[Mattw112IG]

I am seeing something weird I don't understand...

I have a datatable connected to SharePoint.  One column is Yes/No column.

In the datatable it has checkboxes but they are showing incorrectly, showing checked even though the values are false?

However if I put a fake command around the item, it actually displays correctly?

Any idea the right way to get the data table to work?

Thanks,

Terry

[timl · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mattw112IG 

Unfortunately, I don't the data table control works too well with boolean values.

Perhaps @mdevaney's advice in this post about changing the boolean column to a text column and outputting a checkbox symbol might be the solution.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/how-to-handle-Boolean-value-in-Datatable/td-...

If(ThisItem.'PTO Approved',"☑","☐")

[Mattw112IG]

Thanks this worked... but a.) I don't understand why MS doesn't fix this... seems like a big mistake  b.) Still don't understand why my fake formula worked?

[RhysD]

Hey guys, I came across this article when I was dealing with the same problem myself. I actually found that wiping out the information in the formula bar seems to resolve it altogether, that or commenting out the original information. I'm not too sure why this seems to work, but hey-ho!