Let's talk about the Combobox Again with Power Apps (and Modern!)

If the questions keep coming in we will keep making the videos until we have solidified the technique! I keep getting questions about Comboboxes so since we have a new modern combobox lets talk all about comboboxes again.
In this video we do not go over all of the functionalities of comboboxes we just touch on some of the basics. We could probably talk for hours on just comboboxes.
So if you have questions feel free to leave a comment!
We compare modern to classic comboboxes.
We look at some of the common errors.
Then we write and set the defaultselecteditems property of comboboxes.
The easiest way to write a combobox as a text field in my opinion is to Concat & to Split.
Come check out it!
Formulas:
Concat(Combobox1.SelectedItems,Value,",")
Split(Gallery1.Selected.Allergies,",")
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Insert a New Modern Combobox
2:30 Compare to Classic Combobox
3:10 Concat Combobox into Text Label
4:28 Using MultiSelect Choice Fields in SharePoint
5:35 Patching Combobox as Single Line Text
6:58 Patching Combobox as MultiSelect Choice Field
7:39 DefaultSelectedItems of Combobox
9:30 The Spacing causes duplicate selection
11:00 Using a Form converting Single Line Text to Combobox
12:30 Concat again to write Combobox into Single Line Text
13:52 Summarizing the video
15:15 Conclusion

[@andrewhess123]

Drop a question if you got, I have some ideas for my next videos! And of course we got to keep creating that Project Management App in Dataverse for Teams!

[@davemanamtam]

This is awesome! Thank you so much Andrew! I was able to figureout what's wrong with my modern combobox.

[@andrewhess123]

Woot woot!! Nice Dave, glad it helped!

[@sintayeshiferaw5514]

Thank you Andrew, Your video is helpful as usual!

[@andrewhess123]

Thanks for watching Sintaye!

[@Thaeoonge-kiwi]

Thank you for your clear explanation.

[@andrewhess123]

Thanks for watching Kiwi!

[@tluu8501]

What about connecting the modern drop down to a Sharepoint list instead. And then save the drop down value to a single line of text field in SP. I find that the drop down won’t display the value from the single line of text field when editing. Great video! Thank you

[@andrewhess123]

I'm all open for other ideas, there are a few ways to do these combo boxes. Hope this video helped spark a few better ideas than I can come up with 😀Thanks for watching Thien!

[@btoz6237]

Thanks for the tip about dragging the Edit form on to figure out the Choices column name. Took a while of googling to figure this out :(

[@andrewhess123]

Nice! Glad it was helpful B Toz!

[@bshepj]

Good stuff!

[@andrewhess123]

Thank you Bshep!

[@cocolayan7365]

How about a combo box for Office 365 users? I tried it several times, but it only displayed a few items on the list.

[@carolineamarante8275]

Is there any possible way to make 4 comboboxes that filter each other, but doesn't have a specific order of selection? i've been struggling with this one for quite some time now and can't figure it out how to make it work.

[@andrewhess123]

Hi Caroline, so you click on one and then the next combo box is filtered out depending on what you select? I guess the issue is clicking in different order?

[@gaborpataki87]

I've tried it all, but I have a combo box which has a data source of a SharePoint list and it doesn't work. I can patch data from the combo box to the SharePoint list, but once I wish to retrieve the data and allow the user to edit items it does fail. Within my app I do not use forms, only galleries and the patch function and it is not an option to rebuild it from scratch... any ideas to solve it?

[@andrewhess123]

What type of field is in SharePoint? Is it a multi-select choice or a single-line text?... or LookUp?

[@DirtBikingFunWith14]

How can you create a PowerApp within your environment for a customer so they can use it in their environment? How do you package it and send it to them and help them to get it to run in their environment?

[@andrewhess123]

Hi, you can import and export as a package. It's even easier if it's dataverse, with other backends it's a little more difficult.

[@andrewhess123]

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/export-import-app

[@scrublord09]

How do you just display a name instead of an ID for a Lookup Column? I have looked everywhere for info on what should be world's easiest task, but I cannot find this information anywhere. I have to do a lookup by ID. I have to show the name in the combobox and NOT the ID. These are immutable requirements. No other implementation is acceptable; I've asked. Is this really not a feature? ComboBoxes have always had the ability to separate what you bind values to and what you display to the user in every library I've ever used. Is that somehow not in Power Apps? Sorry if this a noob question: I am new to Power Apps. I'm a C# developer primarily.

[@scrublord09]

Also sorry to ask this on YT. I've been posting on forums everywhere with no traction or just people telling me to do something like show the name in another control on the screen. The requirements are the requirements--no other requirements will do. You know you're grasping at straws when you start to think that a YT comment section might be more helpful than the Microsoft forums.

[@andrewhess123]

@@scrublord09No problem thanks for asking here, it's easier for me to respond here! So in the "modern" combobox you can actually remove all the other fields, click on the combobox (modern) and then click on the blue text edit fields, delete everything but "Name". Then you can go back from there and add what you want

[@andrewhess123]

@@scrublord09Let me know if this works for you, it is harder to explain in just text! 😀

[@andrewhess123]

You should also be able to change the order, if you need ID. In a classic combo box there is a way to do it too, it's just a little different. I may be able to make a video about this also.

[@andrewhess123]

Here on this video doing it in classic, lets see if I can find another in modern: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXixYWeYgcmsiKssi=L-j3atv3lpHkCFb6&t=843