Power Apps Patch Function Examples For Every SharePoint Column Type

Welcome to my mini-guide on using the Power Apps Patch Function with SharePoint.

Inside you will find examples of how to patch every SharePoint column type. Each page contains code and visuals to show what the code is doing. COPY + PASTE code from the guide into your own app. Just change the datasource name and column names to match your own.

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Power Apps Patch function examples by SharePoint column type:

There is no way to PATCH these column types:

Calculated Column
External Data Column
Location Column

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Ryan

2 years ago

Hi Matt,
Thanks to this tutorial I just patched to a lookup column for the first time! Next, I’m wondering if it is possible to collect to a lookup column when collecting a whole collection to a datasource (eg. Collect(Datasource, Collection)
Is it possible?

Sudheer

1 year ago

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the article. Can you please share how to work and store Managed Meta data columns using Power apps.

Matthew Devaney

1 year ago

Reply to Sudheer

Sudheer,

Suggest you check out this page by my friend Reza Dorrani: https://rezadorrani.com/index.php/2020/05/04/power-apps-patch-function-with-sharepoint/

Kiki

1 year ago

Can you please share tips on how to patch gallery selection that has a nested gallery?

Matthew Devaney

1 year ago

Reply to Kiki

Kiki,

I would suggest you ask this question in the Power Apps forums:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Forums/ct-p/PA_Comm_Forums

OlaH

1 year ago

Hi Matt
Thank you for this invaluable resource that helped and developed my knowledge.

I’m stuck when it comes to merging two collections, from two Sharepoint lists that contain students’ test results. It’s about how I handle columns with the same name. The key is upn, but then there are also the students’ names, school and class.
Dropcolumns, showcolumns?

Matthew Devaney

1 year ago

Reply to OlaH

Hello Ola,

Check out this page from my “Collections Cookbook.”
https://www.matthewdevaney.com/powerapps-collections-cookbook/join-all-columns-from-another-collection/

Stefan

1 year ago

Hi, is there a way to change the First Published Date for News?
We are transferring lots of News to a new Sharepoint and we want them to have the correct Publish date but this not editable.

Thanks

Matthew Devaney

1 year ago

Reply to Stefan

Stefan,

Not sure. SharePoint migrations are not my specialty.

Justin David

1 year ago

Reply to Matthew Devaney

Good Evening @Matthew

Thanks for the write up tell me how would i go about adding a event created to a outlook calendar?

Matthew Devaney

1 year ago

Reply to Justin David

Justin,

To create a new event in Outlook you would have to use the “Create Event” action in the Office365Outlook connector. This is not done using the PATCH function.

Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365/#create-event-(v4)

Sean Douglas

10 months ago

“PATCH A SharePoint Image Column” seems incomplete or just does not work. Do you have any pointers or further explanation on that solution?

Matthew Devaney

10 months ago

Reply to Sean Douglas

Sean,

I agree it seems like I stopped short of a working solution. What does the Update property of the card for the Attachments column say? Can you point it at the control like this?

AttachmentsControlName.Attachments

Darren Neese

9 months ago

Now give me the same list for those of us who might be using Dataverse! 😂

StefWS

4 months ago

Ho do I patch a lookup column to my sharepoint list. Not the lookup’d column itself. I have a main SPList with lookup columns. I populated dropdowns with the secondary lists (because I can’t sort lookup column directly). Now I want to patch my selected choice (from the secondary list) into my main list, but this gives an error since the data types don’t match.

Matthew Devaney

3 months ago

Reply to StefWS

StefWS,

The data types must match if you are patching from one SP list to another. I don’t think there’s any way around that. Why not just store it as plain-text and sort on it instead?

Brock

3 months ago

I’m struggling with patching a Person column, I’ve always used the formula you list out in your Patch the SharePoint Person column page and it has always worked flawlessly, but now I have an application I am building where it just simply will not work, and I cannot work out why. I get the error “Missing column. Your formula is missing a column ‘Email’ with a type of ‘Text’. (which it is not, this exact formula works if I copy paste it into another application that does this same patch function)

Any ideas?