UPDATE SELECTED ITEMS IN A POWERAPPS GALLERY

[Gorilla_8]

Hey community,

I have an app that I need to update the field status of the selected item through a PowerApps gallery, and I don't know how to do that, follow the screenshots:

Here I have some items selected and others not, but I want only the selected items to be updated, could someone help me?

Here my flow:

I also posted on the stream community: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/UPDATE-SELECTED-ITEMS-IN-A-POWERAPPS-GALL...

[RandyHayes]

@Gorilla_8 

I'm not entirely sure how you are expecting to connect this to Flow, but in general what you want to do is to use a ForAll and Filter the Gallery rows by the checkbox status.

Example:

ForAll(
    Filter(myGallery.AllItems, CheckBox1.Value),
    Do my actions here
)

I hope this is helpful for you.

[Gorilla_8]

@RandyHayes 

The user selects the item and through the flow he takes the item ID and updates the status.
Understood?

[RandyHayes]

@Gorilla_8 

Yes, so again, you will need to use the stated formula with the ForAll and then apply your flow logic in the place indicated.

Your Flow seems to indicate it works only on one item at a time, so you should be able to just put that ForAll in and put your Flow logic in as well.

[Gorilla_8]

Yes, but again he doesn't connect the item ID to the flow, so I asked for help in the community.

I understood your formula, thank you for the help.

[RandyHayes]

@Gorilla_8 

So you have two separate issues?  One was the using only rows checked and the other is with your Flow?

If you're expecting Flow to be able to get your Gallery selected items, it will only come if you have a field in your data and you write that checkbox value into it.

I can say, in regard to your Flow, the first thing you are doing is just getting a list of Items.  If you are going to call flow on each row that is checked, then you need to pass the ID to the Flow and have Flow "Get Item".

If you continue with "Get Items" then again, you will need to write the checkbox value to your data and then check the condition in Flow.

[Gorilla_8]

@RandyHayes 

Yes, I agree, but I just need to know how I pass the ID in my flow.

See my post: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/UPDATE-SELECTED-ITEMS-IN-A-POWERAPPS-GALL...

[RandyHayes]

@Gorilla_8 

So you need to use the "Ask in PowerApps" option for the ID in your Flow.  Then it will become a parameter on your Flow and in PowerApps you will be able to provide the ID to your Flow.

[Gorilla_8]

@RandyHayes 

I've already done this, but I want to know how to pass the ID of the selected items in the flow.

See the screenshots here:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/UPDATE-SELECTED-ITEMS-IN-A-POWERAPPS-GALL...

[RandyHayes]

@Gorilla_8 

I am not sure I am following you.

My understanding is that you have (in PowerApps) a Gallery of records.  You have Checkboxes on each record (which do not appear to be tied to an underlying data column) that you use for allowing users to select which items to "processes".

You are expecting that users will check the appropriate boxes and click on some sort of submit button to then process ONLY the checked items in Flow.

If that all is accurate, then you have to pass the information to Flow. Flow cannot "See" your PowerApp to know what checkboxes are checked.  You will either need to perform a ForAll on the filtered items of the Gallery (as I showed the formula before) and in the ForAll, call your Flow and pass the ID of that record to Flow so it knows what ID to process.  Or, you will need to "package" a list of ID's to pass to Flow in one step (i.e. not in a ForAll) and then Flow will need to parse out the ID's and act on each record.

As I see your flow now, you are firstly getting all the list items...and then what?  And why get all the items?  You only want to deal with the ones that need to be processed.

Please clarify any of the above that may be inaccurate.