Patch reverts to first item in Gallery

[Kea]

Hi all,

I have got this strange behaviour. I have 2 Sharepoint lists and want to update both lists when a button is clicked. The first time it works as expected, but then the Gallery reverts to the first item, not the selecte one. I want the gallery to stay on the selected item. As I said: when I patch the second sharepoint list, my gallery reverts to the first item in the gallery. If I remove the second patch it stays on the correct selected item. 

What am I doing wrong?

I hope someone can help me out. Listened all videos from @ShaneYoung, who saved me a lot of times. But this one is really interesting. 

Regards, Kea

[sopatte]

I'm having a hard time understanding your scenario and the issue. I'm not sure what it is you're seeing when you say "the Gallery reverts to the first item, not the selected one". Is the selection changing? Are the contents of the gallery changing? What is in your gallery (Items property)? Maybe boil this down to a simpler case that illustrates the problem clearly.

[Shanescows · Accepted solution]

This is normal behaviour. The data source is changing so the gallery is refreshing changing the selected item to the first in the gallery not the one you previously selected. 

What I do in this case is set the OnSelect in the gallery to store the item. Set(varRecord, ThisItem) then I use varRecord in place of Gallery.Selected. That way nothing changes. 🙂 

[Kea]

 Thanks Shane!!! Keep up the good work.

[Anonymous]

I do not think this is by design. Patching an item that happens to be selected in a gallery should not affect which item is selected. I also noticed that this is somewhat inconsistent - sometimes it changes and sometimes it does not (depending on the patched data). I suspect this is a bug that has to do with modifying the item in place vs. creating a new item internally when patching.

[DilipP]

Thanks. Your solution work like a charm @Shanescows  🙂

[Simmzee]

Unfortunately, setting the OnSelect in the gallery to store the item. Set(varRecord, ThisItem) then putting varRecord in place of Gallery.Selected in the Patch formula didn't work for me. It writes back to SharePoint without any issues, the only issue is it reverts back to the top of the gallery after the update. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated?

Gallery below;

Save Button on Form below;

[v-antal]

Hi Shane, thank you for your suggestion but this is not longer working. I am not sure if its because of an update.

[Anonymous]

@v-antal , I had the same problem right at the same time as you so I concur something definitely changed. I came up with what is probably the dumbest workaround, but at least it will work until smarter minds figure this out. Sorry, I am a novice at this and probably don't provide the best "technical instructions." I noticed that if the gallery was filtered (the filter must result in one selection) prior to being selected that patches inside the gallery do not reset. Likely because when the gallery is queried or whatever it looks and sees your filter showing the one item. So I set a variable in the gallery item selection button to filter the gallery by entering text via the variable into the search text input (that I already had for the user to search the gallery) which filters the gallery and then navigates to the next screen. When I navigate back to the gallery I have that screen's OnVisible setting the variable back to "" so that all items appear. That is probably the worst explanation ever, but it worked for me. Good luck! Definitely looking for a better solution if anyone has it. 

[365-Assist]

Shane's solution is great. However just be careful that your Gallery Items property doesn't have code (e.g. Filters and Sorts) that refresh the gallery data. 

If this is the case One workaround is to use variable to store the record selected before the refresh occurs.