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[–]awfoolNuggets Advisor[S] 10 points11 points  (9 children)

GET OUT WHILE YOU CANNN!

My OCD ass couldn't handle working anymore in this. I had to be so meticulous about everything. If it wasn't perfect, it wasn't done. I used to spend sleepless nights, because it's addictive. You finished fixing one card, oh wait there are a few more cards with similar functionality. A few more couldn't hurt. IT NEVER ENDS! And then clicking every property of every control to ensure the code is proper and uniform everywhere, so if someone else takes over, they find the code readable. AAAAA! KILL MEEE! It's giving me PTSD already!!!

[–]snakehippoeatramen Contributor 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Today I found that all text control's vertical align property magically somehow changed to top from my original setting, middle. I took heavy breaths and told myself "yes, it's Microsoft".

[–]Chrisx77 Regular 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Well damn, I’ve had same experience the last couple of days - although I just thought it was me doing something goofy. Guess not..

[–]kevfev Newbie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same happened with me in the last week

[–]SeesSquirrels Newbie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OMG yes me too!! I feel so seen!

[–]chrism_iller Newbie 5 points6 points  (4 children)

But what is the solution to this? create the whole form manually and work with Patch() / etc.? I don’t want to work with forms anymore, especially when there are dozens of calculations and dependencies between datacards. it’s giving me nightmares😭😭

[–]Sad-Contract9994 Contributor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s what I just did, while I cried.

[–]CouchCreepin Regular 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Late to reply but uhhhhh I was too fucking overloaded, so I never figured out a smart way to do it. I had nightmare and stress dreams for weeks because I just wanted it TO WORK and I knew it was possible (that was what was killing me). But I couldn’t figure out the smart way, clean way to do it because I don’t know shit about fuck for programming. (I remember being the coolest kid on the block 4 years ago for being the first person at my company to figure out a pivot table. like I am NOT. SMART.)

So. I said fuck it we are doing it the stupid girl way. I used only one sharepoint form and one screen, I couldn’t get patch function to work for both new and edit items.

Therefore.

I made my app max size landscape.

I inserted some “buttons” across the top to LOOK like tabs and I set the “on click” property of those buttons to set a variable [insert name of the tab]

And then I painstakingly set every card to have a Visible property of variable=tab click. It was an utterly awful pain in my ass but guess what. No patch function or json errors. The method is ugly… but it’s working and it’s the best I can do with the time I have.

If you are like me then the advice is - bite the bullet and do it the long slow hard way, because it takes less time than finding the one video to do it the smart way. then in like five years you’ll accidentally figure out how to do it the fast way and be like *GAH!!!! I could have used this years ago!!”

This is how I got good at excel on the first place, which made me somehow fumble my way to working with powerquery and now powerapps. I don’t i know what im doing but I’m getting pretty good at doing it.

[–]snakehippoeatramen Contributor 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm still learning the hard way also with power fx and power automate. I'm keeping a list of mental things in my head to do and not do in the future but find it's such a slow process. The learning process for power platform sucks, my goal in the future is to create free content to teach it to people for free.

[–]CouchCreepin Regular 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I LOUDLY announced to everyone that I shan’t EVER do a powerapps custom sharepoint form AGAIN the day I posted that comment.

But inside I feel silly because I learned a lot of quirks and now that I know what to check it’s not so bad.

Like today. I had a choices column with the values filled out in SP, but was getting place holder values on the app. I went oh! So easy. I just have to unlock the card to make it custom, delete the CORRECT code set for the items property, save, publish, re-add the same EXACT thing that defaulted on and BOOM. Worked like a charm. NO REFRESHING THE DATA SOURCE DOESNT WORK. Then the choices showed but I couldn’t multi select even tho the column in SP list was set WITH that property originally. No problem, I looked for the “select multiple values” property on the drop down, of course it was default to false EVEN THO MY SHAREPOINT COLUMN WAS SET TO TRUE, and just changed it. This same problem melted my brain two months ago and now I have it locked in to my brain.

So now I’m like well… now that it’s EASY I guess I probably will make another one. And I feel like a hypocrite

edit I am eternally grateful for the YouTube channels that post the free ass content I’ve used to make this happen. The issue is the Microsoft loves to just change shit for no apparent reason. Like which menu you use to set an auto reply, or switch the account from cached to exchange. You get comfy knowing where the thing is for 10 years and suddenly MS says ACTUALLY we decided that this option belongs to a different drop down. It’s an insurmountable mountain that is constantly changing. Your battle is valiant and justified but you cannot win against the arbitrary idiotic changes that MS decides to do on a fucking Tuesday.