Repeating Control in PowerApps

Jaydeep Patel

December 07, 2022

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Repeating controls functionality in PowerApps can be achieved using Gallery Control of PowerApps.

Repeating control functionality can be useful in many scenarios. For instance, you can add multiple products in a data source, and you can add multiple clients’ details in the Data Source.

In this article using the repeating control feature we will save data for multiple employees in a SharePoint List.

In this example we will only use the text input control. But we can use any control inside the gallery for repeating control functionality.

Now let’s start building the solution for Repeating Control in PowerApps.

Create SharePoint List

Create PowerApp

Step 1: Create new canvas app.

Step 2: Add Label controls for the heading purposes in the screen that looks like as below and add “+” icon in the first column.

Step 3: After adding “+” icon set its “OnSelect” property as below:

 
Collect(
    DetailCollection,
    {
        Emp_ID: Text(Last(DetailCollection).Emp_ID + 1),
        Emp_Name: "",
        Emp_Des: "",
        Emp_City: ""
    }
)

Step 4: Now add the Blank Vertical gallery control and add text input controls for each field (which are created in “Employee Detail” SharePoint list).

Select the gallery control and set its “Items” property to the collection name:

DetailCollection

Step 5: Add Cancel icon in gallery to remove each row from gallery control.

For that, set property on “OnSelect” property to:

 
RemoveIf(
    DetailCollection,
    Emp_ID = ThisItem.Emp_ID
)

Step 6: Now we will save the rows in the SharePoint list.

 Insert button and set formula on “OnSelect” property.

ForAll(Gallery1.AllItems,Patch(
    'Employee Detail',
    Defaults('Employee Detail'),
    {
        'Employee ID': TextInput_ID.Text,
        'Employee Name': TextInput_Name.Text,
        'Employee Designation': TextInput_Des.Text,
         City: TextInput_City.Text
    }
));

Here we will patch all rows into SharePoint list.

Step 6: Now test the solution for new entries.

After click on “Save” button then go to the SharePoint list. You can see the new items have been created in list.

In conclusion, leveraging the repeating control functionality within PowerApps offers a powerful solution for handling repetitive data entry tasks efficiently.

By utilizing Gallery Control, we’ve demonstrated how to streamline the process of managing multiple entries, such as employee details, within a SharePoint list.

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