Default Value not returning expected result Parent.DataField

[aaronsta]

Hi all, I am building a PowerApp.

Under Data Cards > Data > Default

which shows the default value of a Text Input field of a data card.

The following works and produces the expected result (a telephone number):

LookUp('Member Register', Email in User().Email, EmergencyContactTelephone)

But this does not (and returns EmergencyContactTelephone ) :

LookUp('Member Register', Email in User().Email, Parent.DataField)

(Note: that Parent.DataField returns EmergencyContactTelephone )

What this formula is doing is looking up in a Microsoft List (formerly SharePoint List) called "Member Register" under the column "Email" if it contains User().Email (the e-mail account which is logged in), and if so to return the Emergency Contact Telephone number from the "EmergencyContactTelephone" column.

I have about 50+ columns, and having to individually copy over the DataField as text into the Default field will create problems, and also potentially cause future issues in terms of the maintainability of the PowerApp, rendering it useless if a change is made and I am not there to update the PowerApp.

Help?

[PowerAddict]

@aaronsta apologies for the obvious question but what have you set the DataField property of the data card to? I just tested it out and it works fine, so I am assuming there might be something going on with how the DataField is populated. 

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Hardit Bhatia

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[aaronsta]

Hi Hardit,

Thanks for the reply!

The Data Card has "EmergencyContactTelephone"  (including the double quotation marks) in the DataField

(Also note I just tried this formula Mid(Parent.DataField, Len(Parent.DataField)-2), as I suspected it was returning the quotation marks as-well, but instead it returned

mergencyContactTelephon (i.e deleted the first and last characters).

The DataCard is adapted from a Form template (i.e. Insert > Forms), and has been unlocked and changed around a bit, I also tried it with a fresh DataCard with the same outcome.