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Combo Box pre-populated with stored values

Hi all,

I'm struggling to figure out how to populate a combo box with values that are stored in a table (currently Excel, but hopefully moving to a Dataverse table).  The scenario is:

 

I have a 'New' screen that contains a combo box (in an Edit form) that allows the user to select multiple values from a list of items.  That list of items is stored in an Excel table called 'Table6'.  When the user selects values and hits 'Save', the selected values are concatenated (using ";") and stored in a table called 'Table1', in column called 'Services'.  This all works fine.

 

The app also has an 'Edit' screen that contains a combo box (also in an Edit form).  I would like this combo box to retrieve the stored values so that the user can readily see the Services that are already associated with this customer.  The user s/b able to then select more (from the superset of items in 'Table6'), delete etc.  Selections would then be saved back to the same location in 'Table1'.

 

The combo box in question has Items = Table1.  Intuitively, I think I need to use DefaultSelectedItems.  And I also believe that I need to use the Split function (possibly with other functions) to get the stored values in a form that can be used in the combo box.  But I have been unsuccessful in getting this to work properly.

 

Do you have suggestions as to how I can accomplish this?

 

Thanks so much for any guidance...

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CNT
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@Marcusm what is the items property for the EditForm?

CNT
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@Marcusm Just checking if you are still interested in getting a solution for this?

Hi CNT, thanks so much, I was offline this weekend.  The Item property for the form itself is currently blank.  As indicated before, the Item property for the combo box itself is Table1.

The stored values that I want to prepopulate the combo box with are in the 'Services' column in Table1.

 

make sense?  

thanks again for your help...

@Marcusm To select the values stored before, you will have to do a Split on the values retrieved from the 'Services' column in 'Table1'. If I assume that the retrieved values for the current record are in a variable called varRetrievedServices, the the following formula in the DefaultSelectedItems property of the ComboBox will preselect those items,

Split(varRetrievedServices, ",")

 Relplace varRetrievedServices with the correct name.

 

Please remember to give a 👍 and accept the solution as it will help others in the future.

Thanks again.  Do I need to define the variable (varRetrievedServices) somewhere?  As is, when I type 

Split(varRetrievedServices, ",")

 

I get a couple errors.  Note that Table1 does have other columns, so I'm assuming I need to connect varRetrievedServices to the specific column I'm referencing?

Marcusm_0-1622494008346.png

 

@Marcusm I was just giving an example. You could place this in the DefaultSelectedItems of the combobox,

 

 

Split(Parent.Default, ",")

 

 

@CNT, thanks.  Split(Parent.Default, ",") doesn't throw errors, and is intuitive to me.  But unfortunately it doesn't solve my issue.  I receive  'No item to display' when I run the app with this command.  I'm assuming this is because while the app understands that the "Parent" is the customer that I'm highlighting from Table1, I still haven't told it that I want the corresponding "Services" for that customer.  (I tried Parent.Default.Services but that didn't work). It still seems like I need to use Set or Collect etc, and then run Split on that variable or collection.

I also tried:

Set(varRetrievedServices, {ThisItem.Services}),
Split(varRetrievedServices, ",")

@Marcusm Is this ComboBox inside an EditForm? What is the Items property for this Edit Form?

@CNT, yes, it's inside an Edit Form.  The Item property for the Form itself is blank.  The Item property for the combo box inside the Form is "Table1". 

Also, your question prompted me to check the Default property for the DataCard - which is 'ThisItem.Services'.  So that would indicate that I have told the app to focus on the Services field and your original comments on the Split command should work (right?). 

I know that the "No Item to Display" message can happen if the DisplayMode is set to 'view', but I've confirmed that DisplayMode is set to 'edit' in the Combo Box. 

 

I went back to 

Split(Parent.Default, ",")

And I also tried with a ";" since that's the delimiter in the source table.  But in both cases I still get 'no item to display when I run the app.  (I also closed/reopened the app).  Am I missing something obvious?

 

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