Global Variables Changing Upon Restart

[AnthonyH8114]

I have an App that is using a Gallery to Set a Global Variable in the 'OnSelect' action. I am using Set(Comments, ThisItem) which should generate a Global Variable type of RECORD, and in 4 of my 5 screens, that is exactly what is happening. 

Each variable is used for a specific page; Q for a Quality screen, Cost for a Cost screen, etc. My issue is with the final variable, ProcComments, which continues to revert back to a variable type. A little more context...

In each screen, I Set the variable during the 'OnSelect' for the gallery. On that same screen I have a 'Rich Text Editor' that I am using to record notes which are dumped into the SharePoint list item when saved.

My Save icon appears when the text editor is changed, and when the save icon is clicked, I am doing the following...

Again, for 4 of my 5 screens, this works flawlessly. On my last screen however I get the "Incompatible type..." error. If I rename the variable the issue goes away until I save, close, and reopen the record. I have been fighting this for days. The only thing I have noticed that is different is on the variables screen, where for whatever reason, my problem variable is being defined on the 'Notes' action instead of the 'Gallery' action. 

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[WarrenBelz]

Hi @AnthonyH8114 ,

The first thing to do is look at all of the Uses (the second tab in your screenshot). If you want to, please select each one and post the code with a note where it is being used.

[AnthonyH8114]

@WarrenBelz, the code for every single 'comments' variable is the same across every page (besides what the variable is named). Below I included the code with 'Comments' in place of the variable names seen in the screenshots above. 

For every gallery OnSelect, the code is Set('Comments', ThisItem).

Then on each pages Text Editor, I have a 'Save' icon that runs; Set('Comments',

Patch(PPO_RFQ_Master, 'Comments',

{App_Notes: 'Comments'.App_Notes & "*" & User().FullName & "-" & Now() & ":<br>" & RichTextEditor1.HtmlText}));

Reset(RichTextEditor1)

The issue is for every other page, the variable is being originally defined during the Gallery step, but for some reason no matter what I do, on my last page it is defining the variable on the 'Save' icon reference instead of the gallery. I have renamed, deleted/saved/added back, recreated the page, and everything else I can think of with no luck. 

Can I set a Blank Record variable OnVisible for the screen? Is there a way to tell it which one to reference first to define the variable type? This work 4 times without issue, but page 5 will not cooperate. 

[WarrenBelz]

Hi @AnthonyH8114 ,

If you are going to use the first one (setting the Variable to the entire record - which I assume the gallery Items refer to), then you cannot then set the same Variable to part of the record as you are doing in the second instance. You are also patching the record referring to itself - although this may not be an issue.

Try this (assuming you are using SharePoint)

With(
   {_ID: Comments.ID},
   Patch(
      PPO_RFQ_Master, 
      {
         ID: _ID,
         App_Notes: 
         'Comments'.App_Notes & "*" & 
         User().FullName & "-" & Now() & ":<br>" & RichTextEditor1.HtmlText
      }
   );
   Set(
      Comments,
      LookUp(
         DataSource,
         ID = _ID
      )
   )
)

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