Repeating Table and Dropdown

[AshleyFoozi]

Hi All. I have seen a similar question here which has not been adequately answered. 

I have a repeating table in a gallery (using Shane Young's brilliant Youtube videos). In the row I have several fields; some text boxes and others drop downs. After filling the first row and creating the next row, I noticed that the selected drop down values go back to the first value of the Items. When looking at the collection the values are correct. Some users might think that their entry hasn't been saved. I have other repeating tables without drop downs and they work perfectly. Anybody have any suggestions?

First row entry.......

Second Row entry.......

[Kat27]

Yes, the onsuccess of the Main form is where my ForAll statement is located.  The dropdowns no longer retain the data when I select the save icon (Patch) formula after each entry in the gallery.  

[vwyankee]

I think it may be in part to using the SelectedText.Value property vs the Selected.Value as I've not used the former before. I can get a closer look later today. 

[Kat27]

IT'S WORKING!!!!! I exited out of PowerApps and back into the APP.  Thank you so much for your patience and assistance.  You are awesome and deserve top Kudos for your patience.

[Kat27]

One glitch is the ID from the Form is not feeding to the secondary SP List.  My secondary list is ECPLID.  Which is correctly entered in my ForAll Statement.  ECPLID: ECPLDetailsForm.LastSubmit.ID

My sharepoint column for ECPLID is a number column.  Is it possible I need to change this column settings in my list for this to be updated?  My ID in the primary SP list is the system ID field in the "View".  That is working and creating and incrementing with entry.  

[vwyankee]

Your MasterID column in the secondary list should be a number column. Trying to piece everything together it appears you have everything correct. My only curiosity is in your SP list names as I have called my secondary list the "details" list from when I went through Shane's videos awhile back. While the naming doesn't matter it has caused me some confusion since your form to the primary SP list has "details" in the name. I'm not sure what to suggest outside of asking you to upload your exported app so I could import it and have a look or putting out plainly all the details (SharePoint list names and columns, form name, gallery with fields and collection with column names).

[Kat27]

The ID Column in secondary list is a number.  So I don't understand why it is not creating the ID number from the ECPLDetailsForm.  I did simplify my naming convention.  ECPLDetails is the SharePoint list and ECPLDetailsForm is the Form in PowerApps. I am attaching an exported copy of the APP, but I cannot attach the Plan data or employee data.  I am also attaching a copy of my SharePoint blank lists in a workbook so you can see column names.  The ECPLDetails form (ECPLDetails - SP List) and GalleryCodeRight (CodeRightCollection - SP List) will collect the data exported.  I deleted all data collected during my testing.  Greatly appreciate the assistance.  Can I remove these attachments when problem is resolved?

[vwyankee]

@Kat27 - Found a few things and have attached the updated app that works. I created some temporary SP lists for it but kept with the same naming you had outside of some Excel lookups I think you had via OneDrive (according to the broken data connections). I'll send you a PM with more info but here are a few bullet points that may help others that come across this thread:

• When you are using hard-coded drop-down choices that are to be treated as numbers, don't use quotes as that sets your formatting to text not number. IE - [0.25,0.50,.075,1.00] 
• Getting the ID of the last submitted form item needs to be done before resetting your form otherwise there's no ID stored - it's been reset. If you really want to reset it before ending up at another screen, add it to the OnSucess of the form after you first patch the value of that ID to the secondary list.
• Getting a sum of a column for all items in your collection only needs info related to the collection not the gallery. IE - Sum(CollectionName, CollectionColumnName). In your specific case: Sum(ECPLCollection, Hours) 
• Defaults for drop-down controls in a gallery aren't any different than text box controls. All you need is the collection column set. IE - Your two gallery drop-down default values only need to be PlanName and Hours respectively
• When patching to a collection or SharePoint list or other data-source the statement inside the squiggly brackets is where you're saying "for the destination column x, write this value" in the format of {ProjectName: PlanName, ProjectHours: Hours}. ProjectHours is the destination SharePoint column name and Hours is the source column name with the value you want to write to the SharePoint column.
• When working with different formats (text, numbers, tables) be sure to be aware that formulas related to each need to be consistent with the format. This was what I explained last fall with specifics in page 1 of this thread. 😀

[Kat27]

I apologize for the delayed response. I was finally able to upload the revised app and the ID is now appearing on both SP Lists!  I failed to let you know I previously converted the Excel worksheets to SP Lists, for the employee names and the hours vs. manually entering.  But thanks for the heads up on the "" marks!  The data is now flowing correctly to both lists!  Thank you again for your assistance.  Can you remove the attachment you sent me from your posting.  I would prefer not to include.  

[vwyankee]

Apparently there's a limit on private messages as I got this error when trying to send one to you, @Kat27 :

Who knows how long "for now" is. Here's my most recent response that's still relevant to this discussion thread:

I'm understanding that you want a date field for each line item (of the repeating table collection) just like the main (ECPLDetailsForm) form's ECPLDate field. If so, you'll need to make a small number of additions so that your collection has the column when created initially, your gallery has a mapped date picker to that column, your save button for the collection includes the date in that date picker and your main form OnSuccess includes the date when writing to the child SharePoint list. The more you work with this stuff and get a better grasp of the data sources and virtual tables (collections in Power Apps) the easier it gets to figure things out in the future. 

Additions to formulas are in red:

1. Add it to the formula that first creates the collection.

- ClearCollect(ECPLCollection,{PlanName: "", Hours:0.00, ECPLDate: Today()})

2. Add your Date label and Date Picker control (from input menu) to the gallery for this collection column - set the DefaultDate property of the Date Picker to ThisItem.ECPLDate

3. Update your statement for save button patch and collect to include the date from the date picker:

Patch(ECPLCollection, ThisItem, {PlanName: ddPlanName.Selected.PlanName, Hours: Value(ddHours.Selected.Value), ECPLDate: Value(dpECPLDate.SelectedDate)}); Collect(ECPLCollection, {PlanName: "", Hours: 0.00, ECPLDate: Today()})

4. Add the ECPLDate column as a Date Column type to your line items SharePoint list (CodeRightCollection) if it's not there already. In my test site it is there from what you had sent me awhile ago:

5. Add the ECPLDate to your OnSuccess formula where you're patching the line items to the CodeRightCollection SharePoint list:
ForAll(ECPLCollection,If(!IsBlank(PlanName),Patch(CodeRightCollection,Defaults(CodeRightCollection),{ECPLID:ECPLDetailsForm.LastSubmit.ID,EmployeeName:PlanName,ProjectName:PlanName,ProjectHours:Hours, ECPLDate: ECPLDate})))

All is well after saving from Power Apps:

[Kat27]

Is there any way to get the date in the gallery (collection) to read the date in the Form?  Same as with EmpID?  Because it is not uncommon for a user to forget their entry today and create their entry the next day.  So Today() would not work as it would date stamp current date.  But they should be selecting the correct date on the form when selecting their name to complete the form.