PowerApps: Get and save multiple selection values to Excel

[darogael]

Introduction

Getting combo box values from an Excel spreadsheet stored in OneDrive is easy, however, saving multiple selected values to Excel does require a formula. This blog describes how you build that formula.

Excel spreadsheet

The Excel spreadsheet is stored in OneDrive. 

The spreadsheet contains two sheets,Selections and Misc

Misc is where the values for lookup are stored. Drink, Meal and Desert are the three columns which are used as lookup for mulitple selection in the PowerApp

Multiple selected values in PowerApps are stored as semi-column separated values in the select sheet

PowerApps

This video provides a step-by-step process on how the formula needs to be applied to save the multiple selections to the Excel spreadsheet. Here are the screenshots of the two formulas that are used.