Set Combo Box Default Value to Parent Name

[zlunger]

Hi all,

I am building a Power App that will have a gallery with a list of people coming from a SharePoint list. When a person is selected from the list, several values are set and there is a "profile" screen that comes up with those values set on the page (name, email, status, etc). From there, I allow users of the Power App to edit the user profile and update the SharePoint list through a form.

However, when I send the user from the profile to the edit form that will allow updates to the profile, I want the form to be autofilled with the person's profile data already existing so that it can simply be changed. Currently I am doing this with a combo box that fills the form based on the selected name from there.

I would like to set the form to be automatically filled with the person's data that I am selecting already, how do I go about that?

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@mdevaney I have used a lot of your tutorials and this feels like something you would be able to answer well for me.

[v-jefferni · Accepted solution]

Hi @zlunger ,

Could you please share more details about your scenario? If the Gallery and the Form share the same data source (in Items/DataSource property) which I assume is the people profile list, and the Item property of the form is set to Gallery.Selected , the form will automatically be populated the selected people profile by default. I cannot understand what you mentioned "doing this with a combo box that fills the form based on the selected name from there", would you please provide some screenshots of the App screen?

If you have a people list and a profile list, using the profile list as the data source of the edit form, and the it is a people column is LookUp/Person type within the profile lit, you will need to confirm in the very beginning because there would be much difference to apply to the two scenarios. But I'm not aware of the reason that using a separate profile list so this is only the assumption.

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Jeffer Ni
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[zlunger]

@v-jefferni 

That is exactly what I was looking for with the Gallery.Selected! Can't believe I didn't realize it before, I appreciate it.

The combo box was doing the same thing, but with the list of people that are in the gallery as choices from the combo box to fill the form in question.