Dropdown Text Field OR just Text Field in the Form

[hexarthrius]

Hi, I wanted to achieve this in one of our forms. Basically the form should be a text input, but when the user already made inputs before, those records should be visible in a dropdown:

[eka24]

What you can do is to insert a custom datacard with a dropdown or just a dropdown on your form. Then in the ITEMS of the dropdown put;

Datasource.Location

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[hexarthrius]

Hi @eka24,

Thanks for replying quickly! For the custom dropdown, will I be able to enter my own values even without selecting the dropdown value? Like a free text?

[v-xida-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @hexarthrius ,

Do you want to type some text to act as custom value within the Dropdown control?

Based on the needs that you mentioned, I afraid that the Dropdown control could not achieve your needs. Currently, within PowerApps app, you could not type some search text as custom value within the Dropdown control.

As an fixed solution, I think the ComboBox control could achieve your needs. You could consider add a ComboBox control inside the data card to replace the Dropdown control or original Text Input box. Then set the Items property to following:

Distinct(YourDataSource, Location)

Set the SelectMultiple property of the ComboBox to following:

false

Set the IsSearchable property of the ComboBox to following:

true

Set the Update property of the data card which contains this ComboBox to following:

If(
   !IsBlank(ComboBox1.SearchText),
   ComboBox1.SearchText,
   ComboBox1.Selected.Result
)

Please take a try with above solution, then check if the issue is solved.

Best regards,