Vote with a Drop Down within a Gallery

[Anonymous]

Hello Community,

I am having a weird glitch in my app and I am hoping I can get some help here.

I have a Power App that a committee uses to vote on changes to documents. The committee leader chooses a document from a drop down list and a gallery appears for voting. The gallery has one tile per committee member with a drop down ["","Yes","No"]:

The application then patches the votes to SharePoint List text columns. If a committee member is not present in the meeting, the vote for that role is disabled. The documents that don't have all the votes recorded can be brought up in subsequent meetings and edited so that the voting can be completed. 

The problem that I have is when the gallery brings up the votes from an existing record. The collection that contains the votes has the correct records from the SP List. I have the "Default" value for the drop down set as "ThisItem.Vote". However, the default value reflected for every member is whatever the first vote reads instead of the votes for each member like the collection has.

I hope someone can point out what I'm missing!

Thanks!

[pontusofsweden]

Hi!

Hard to tell without all the facts, but I suppose that one document = one record in the SP list? And that every committee member has one column in that record? In that case, I think that the default value "ThisItem.Vote" is wrong. Or you could at least not have that as default for all dropdowns since that will give you the same value. Shouldn´t it be like "ThisItem.LeadPersonVote", "ThisItem.ProjectManagerVote" etc?

BR

Pontus

[Anonymous]

Hi @pontusofsweden !

You are correct: 1 document = 1 record in SP list, and each committee member has a column in the list. However, to put it in the gallery, I had to create a collection with 2 columns: Role and Vote. If instead of the drop down, I have a label where the text is ThisItem.Vote, it works fine. 

I hope this detail helps clarify.

Thanks!

Blanca

[pontusofsweden · Accepted solution]

Hello!

Aha, so you mean that in the Collection, the datasource of your gallery, you have one record per committee member?

Still not sure the exact problem but I have seen similar problems myself. I have noticed that dropdowns in galleries sometimes caches the values and that the Default values is overwritten by that. Have you tried to "Reset" the dropdowns? If no, try to add this formula on a button, or maybe the OnVisible property of the screen (whatever suits you best)

UpdateContext({ResetVar: true});UpdateContext({ResetVar: false})

Then, on the Reset property of your dropdown put:

ResetVar

This will force a reset of the control to Default value. Hope this helps!

BR

Pontus

[Anonymous]

It  worked!! I had a feeling that it had something to do with cached memory but I had no idea of why or how to fix it! thanks so much @pontusofsweden!!