Purpose
A Power Apps dropdown allows users to select one option from a list of predefined options by clicking or tapping on a downward arrow. Its purpose is to save space and present a limited set of choices.
Properties
| AccessibleLabel Screen readers will voice this text when a user selects the control |
| DefaultSelectedItems Initial values displayed in the control before the user interacts with it |
| ContentLanguage Describes the language used to the audience (e.g. “en-US”) |
| DisplayMode Selects the mode: Edit, View or Disabled. In Edit mode the user can input values. In View mode the user can only see the values and in Disabled mode the control is greyed-out. Options: = DisplayMode.Disabled = DisplayMode.Edit = DisplayMode.View |
| Height Distance from the top of the control to the bottom |
| Items Table containing values displayed inside the dropdown list Example: [“Item 1”, “Item 2”, “Item 3”] |
| OnChange Actions that will be executed when the Value property of the progress bar changes |
| OnSelect Actions that will be executed when the button is pressed. |
| Required Unknown purpose. |
| Selected Dropdown list item record selected by the user |
| SelectedItems Dropdown list item records selected by the user |
| Text Text displayed on the button |
| Visible Determines whether to show or hide the control |
| Width Distance from the left side of the control to the right side |
| X Distance from the left edge of the screen to the left side of the control |
| Y Distance from the top edge of the screen to the top of the control |
How To Setup The Dropdown Control
- Select the dropdown control in Power Apps studio. Choose the datasource from the Items menu.
2. Edit the fields. Add at least one field to the dropdown. The first field will show in the dropdown items list.
3. Click on the dropdown control to see the list of items.
4. Get the selected item’s Title field by using this code.
DropdownCanvas1.Selected.TitleDid You Enjoy This Article? 😺
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Seems that this control has a limit of 25 items?? seems really low considering the old one had a limit of 500. Hoping this is just for the time being and on realease they will have at least 500 back.
Mollet,
Yes, it is definitely just for the time being. This control will certainly be improved before it comes out of preview.
this dropdown can’t show more than 25 items, you can check this
Ahemd,
Good call out on the limitations. I suspect this is going to be improved soon.
Control doesn’t support searching either, so seems like much improvement is needed before it can be used in production apps.
Also can’t display more than 1 field! Geeze, kinda sucks.
Sim,
Early release. Give it time.
Is it possible to use these modern dropdown controls for cascading? I’ve not had any luck getting this to work.
Yes you can do cascading. Here is code for a dropdown that changes the 2nd one.
First Dropdown is called drpFeatureType and 2nd is called drpFeatureSubType.
For the first one, add this code:
Sort(ForAll(Distinct(YOURDATABASE, Title), {Result: ThisRecord.Value}), Result, SortOrder.Ascending)
and make sure you select the Title in the Edit field of the dropdown.
Then add
Sort(Filter(DFERequestTypes,Title=drpFeatureType.Selected.Result), SubType, SortOrder.Ascending)
to the 2nd dropdown and make sure to add SubType to the Edit Fields area.
Hi Matthew,
thanks for the post, very intersting.
I am playing with these new visuals, especially this dropdown, I like the look 🙂
It seems I cannot assign a value from a gallery item like ThisItem.SomeField into the DefaultSelectedItems.
This looks surprising to me. Does it mean we can’t bind default values from a datasource? Wih the old dropdown we can do this.
With new Input Text we can. With new Checkbox we can’t…
Or am I missing something?
Thanks!
My list is blank (Choices([@’My list’].Column)) – but controlling selection with a textbox and code DropdownCanvas1.Selected.Title I can see that the values are there. Is it font color = to background color?? Drives me crazy.
Preben,
No themeing yet. It’s coming.
I have problems with defining the DefaultSelectedItems property.
Items – [“08″,”09″,”10″,”11″,”12″,”13″,”14″,”15″,”16″,”17″,”18”]
How would I define a default value in this simple scenario? Thanks in advance!
Edit: The only solution I found is to define Items as Table({},{},{} … and then set the specific table record as default. It’s a pain to configure.
Currently unable to specify a table of SearchFields like in the old combobox. Restricted to searching on a single field even though multiple can added.