Powerapps patch collection to sharepoint list
Welcome to my mini-guide on using the Power Apps Patch Function with SharePoint. Show
In this article, we will know what is PowerApps patch function? how to patch a collection PowerApps?, how PowerApps patch new record? how to use the PowerApps Patch function to submit data to multiple lists and many examples. What is the PowerApps Patch function?Patch function in PowerApps used to create record in the data source or modify a single or multiple records without affecting other properties. You can
PowerApps patch function syntaxUsage: Used to modify or create a record in a data source. Syntax :
Usage: Used to modify or create a set of records in a data source Syntax :
Usage: Used to merge records, it is required at least two records that you want to merge.
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powerapps patch examplesIn this examples, we will use powerapps patch function with sharepoint list PowerApps patch create new recordYou can use the Power Apps Patch function with the Defaults function to create a new record in the Data source (The Defaults function is often used inside a Patch ).
This below formula helps you to create new record in the SharePoint list “Employee information”
So this is how PowerApps Patch SharePoint List New Item. PowerApps patch function return valueThe return value of Patch function is the record that you modified or created. In some cases we ask our selves how to get the item id in PowerApps?
Now we can say that the PowerApps patch function return value is the item created and you can use it to get the details of the item that you just created. Power Apps patch function multi line fieldyou can use the Char(10) to add new lines in your text. PowerApps patch function number fieldThis formula will helps to patch number field.
Note that there are no double quotes around the number value. PowerApps patch function dateUse the Data function to set the field value to any date or you can use the now() function to set the field value to the current time. This formula will helps to patch Date field.
PowerApps patch function Yes/No columnYes/no fields have two values” true or false“. To set the fields of the type Yes, simply use true and false values or expressions that give a true or false value.
PowerApps patch function choice fieldAnother PowerApps Patch function example is to patch a record that contains Choice field. Here I want to update the choice value of a specific item in the SharePoint list. The Power Apps Formula that patch a choice field expect record type “Id and Value” for the chosen field. In this scenario i have drop down list that filled withe values from SharePoint list choice field :
You can use the Choices function to fill the drop down list with the SharePoint choice field. Now we want to use PowerApps Patch function to create new record that contain choice field , this below formula helps you to perform this task.
‘Job Title’ is the Choice field that will contain the record that we selected from the drop-down list “Dropdown1.Selected”. This is how we can use dropdown value in PowerApps patch function. In general, to patch the Choice field you have to provide the Id and the Value of the field.
‘Job Title‘ the SharePoint Choice column name . Id the id of the choice ” the item” that the user chose it to begin from 0, 1,2,3,… in sequence ” get it from your item control, for example, BrowseGallery1.Selected.ID” the id comes through a gallery’s Items property. Value the text value of the Choice “the item”. This is how to save Choice field value using PowerApps Patch function. PowerApps patch function with lookupTo use Power apps patch function with lookup, you do the same as we do in choice field. Provide the id and the value for the lookup field.
‘Office Name’ the SharePoint lookup column name . Power Apps patch Person ColumnThis Field type requires you to supply this information [Claims, Email, Department, DisplayName, JobTitle, Picture]. you canuse the Office365Users connector to get the details of the user { Claims: Concatenate( "i:0#.f|membership|", User().Email ), Department: "", DisplayName: User().FullName, Email: User().Email, JobTitle: "", //the user job title Picture: "" // get the user pic }PowerApps patch update recordTo change one or more records in a data source, use the Patch function. you can change the values of specific fields without affecting other attributes. This formula, for example, modifies the work phone number of an employee with the email “”:
So this how to use powerapps patch function to update existing record. Power Apps Patch to modify multiple recordsYou can use Patch to create or update multiple records in a single call, all that you do is passing a table of base records in the second argument instead of a single base record. Syntax: Patch( DataSource, BaseRecordsTable, ChangeRecordTable1 [, ChangeRecordTable2, … ] )
PowerApps patch collectionYou can use the power Apps patch function to modify or create a set of records in a data source based in a collection. You can use the collect function to collect data from a collection to a data source, but the collection must have the same names as the columns in the data source. So what if you want to bind the data from the collection that have different column names? In this case, we can use the Patch function as the bellow examples Suppose we have a collection that contains these fields (empname,workphone), and we want to patch these records to a SharePoint list in the columns (Title, ‘Work Phone’). Create Collection TempCollection in the Onstart property of the app, and don’t forget to click Run OnStart to create the collection.
To use powerapps patch from collection apply this formula ConclusionIn this Power Apps post we know the following :
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