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Connect the drop-down field to data - PowerApps Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Power Apps Essential Training: Beyond the Basics
Connect the drop-down field to data
- [Narrator] Okay, we've made great progress with our app. All we have to do yet is connect our drop-downs to the proper data source. Let's take a quick look at our app. Let's preview it. And when we select the drop-downs, all we see is that sample data, that little list one, two, three. And what we're going to do is change each of these fields, so that they are connected to the data that we want to show up in that drop-down list. Before we do that, let's go ahead, and let's take a look at our data sources. Because when we open that up, we see the tables that we named and created in that Excel workbook. And these are the names that we need to use to connect these tables, this data, to these drop-down fields. So we're going to start with this one, gender. We're going to click here. And we come up to the formula bar, and we see DropDownSample. We need to highlight that so we can type over it. The field that we…
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Format the data in Excel as a table4m 52s
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Make a data connection to OneDrive1m 58s
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Create and preview the app3m 9s
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Change the detail screen layout2m 55s
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Change single-line text into a multiline text field4m 36s
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Add another data source3m 31s
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Add a drop-down input field4m 22s
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Connect the drop-down field to data2m 38s
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Save and test the app2m 44s
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Add a theme and create a new version of the app2m 51s
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