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PowerApps - How To Patch Dataverse Choice Field

Introduction

In this article, we are going to see about what PowerApps Patch will work for Choice field in Dataverse and how it is useful to develop Power Platform Applications.

PowerApps is a service-oriented application used for developing custom apps for your organization.

Easily develop mobile and web apps for any business need—even if you have no technical or development experience—with Power Apps. 

PowerApps helps us create simple apps quickly. Through PowerApps templates, we can customize our applications. With PowerApps, we can connect to our company data coming from

  • Oracle
  • SAP
  • Salesforce
  • Office365
  • Azure
  • Excel/CSV Files

It simplifies the development cycle of the business apps and equips the business users and developers to build custom native, mobile, and web applications.

Launch Canvas App

The steps are given below to create a Power App based on On-Premises data.

  • Login to Office 365 SharePoint site and click the list, where you want to add PowerApps.
  • Click PowerApps link in the list ribbon given below.
  • Enter the PowerApps name and it will redirect to the PowerApps Studio.

Click blank App.

Create Choices Field in Data verse

Developers have trouble filtering on a choice column to display the values in drop down. Power Apps. I have a Data verse table 'Demo Choice' that lists the following:

Now display the Form Control to Add new values into Dataverse Table

Add Form and include Data verse Table as Data Source

Submit Button’s On select Write the code like this,

Patch(
   DemoChoices,
   Defaults(DemoChoices),
 {
   Name: DataCardValue1.Text,
   TestStatus: DataCardValue3.Selected.Value
  }
)

Adding New item,

Let’s validate the DataTable, the new Record has been added,

Conclusion

 PowerApps gives you the ability to connect with all kinds of data, which is not only available with your Tenant but connected to it via the Data Management Gateways.

PowerApps is truly the future of building custom forms and then making them available on mobile devices for your organization.

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