When Patching a new form, patch is reset after patch is successful.

[Anonymous]

I started to have a strange problem.  I have a "Save Draft" functionality in my app and it workded as expected until today.

If the Item is new, I patch the Item to SharePoint with the following code:

UpdateContext({
            AccidentRecord: Patch(
                AccidentReporting,
                Defaults(AccidentReporting),
                formaccidentinfo.Updates,
                formpersonnellInfo.Updates,
                formTypeOfIncident.Updates,
                formIncident.Updates,
                formCause.Updates,
                formRCA.Updates,
                formCorrectiveAction.Updates,
                {
                    Status: {
                        '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
                        Value: "Draft"
                    }
                },
                {EmployeeWOEmail: inputTempEmployee.Text}
            )
        })

The patch works, but for some reason, the screen is now reset and all field are blank.  Again, this worked as a charm 2 days ago.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Leon.

[Drrickryp]

Hi @Anonymous,

What did the screen look like two days ago?   

[Anonymous]

Thanks for replying.

Few days ago, the screen would just retain the values that user would enter before saving.

Thank you,

Leon.

[Drrickryp · Accepted solution]

Hi Leon, I don't know why the behavior of your screen changed.  Am I correct in thinking that you want to see the results of your patch?  If so, you could put a View form on your screen and set its DataSource to AccidentReporting and the Item property to First(Sort(AccidentReporting,ID,Descending)).  

[iamlee]

did you manage to fix it? I am experiencing the same when there's multiple edit forms, I think patch is resetting the forms for some reason. 

[Anonymous]

Yes, I resolved it.

Long story short, I set the Default Mode to "formmode.edit" and changed the "item" property to 

If(
(resumeDraft || copyNDAitem),
myRequestsGallery.Selected
)

This way, if this is a resumtion of draft it will re-reload items from the selected item.

Hope this helps!

Leon.