How to Set/Get Power Apps Combo Box Selected Value?

In this Power Apps tutorial, we will see how to set/get Power Apps Combo box selected value with various examples like:

• Set Power Apps combo box value based on another combo box
• Power Apps get combo box selected value and display in a label

Set Power Apps Combo box value based on another combo box

This section will cover how to set the Power Apps Combo box value based on another combo box.

For Example, I have a SharePoint Online list [IT Support Ticket] that has various columns like:

I created a Power Apps Canvas app and added an Edit form. The form contains three Combo box controls.

1. Issue
2. Timeline
3. Issue Assigned To

When a user chooses a value from the “Issue” combo box, the “Timeline” or “Issue Assigned To” combo box automatically selects a corresponding value based on the selected Issue, as shown below:

Let’s follow the below steps to achieve this:

• On the Power Apps screen, insert an Edit form. Then, add a new data source for the above SharePoint list and set the Edit form’s Data source property.

Where,

1. IT Support Ticket = Datasource name

• Select the Timeline Combo box -> Set its DefaultSelectedItems property to:

If(
    DataCardValue3.Selected.Value = "Laptop",
    Table({Value: "4 Days"}),
    If(
        DataCardValue3.Selected.Value = "Outlook",
        Table({Value: "2 Days"}),
        If(
            DataCardValue3.Selected.Value = "Network",
            Table({Value: "2 Days" & " " & "3 Days"}),
            Table({Value: "3 Days"})
        )
    )
)

Where,

1. DataCardValue3 = Issue Combo box control name
2. Laptop, Outlook,.. = Issue Combo box values
3. 4 Days, 3 Days,.. = Timeline Combo box values

• Select the Issue Handled By Combo box -> Set its DefaultSelectedItems property to:

If(
    DataCardValue3.Selected.Value = "Laptop",
    Table({Value: "Chuck"}),
    If(
        DataCardValue3.Selected.Value = "Outlook",
        Table({Value: "Johanna Lorenz"}),
        If(
            DataCardValue3.Selected.Value = "Network",
            Table({Value: "Dan"}),
            Table({Value: "Serena"})
        )
    )
)

Where,

1. DataCardValue3 = Issue Combo box control name
2. Laptop, Outlook,.. = Issue Combo box values
3. Chuck, Johanna Lorenz,.. = Issue Handled By Combo box values

• Once your app is ready, Save, Publish, and Preview the app when the user selects a value from the “Issue” Combo box. Then, the other combo box will automatically select a corresponding value based on the selected Issue.

As mentioned above, I covered how to set the Power Apps combo box selected value.

Power Apps Get Combo Box Selected Value

Here, we will see how to get the Power Apps combo box selected value to a text label.

As per the above steps, we saw how to set the Power Apps combo box selected value. Now, we can utilize those Combo box selected values and get those selected values in a text label control as shown below:

Let’s follow the below steps to achieve this:

• For the Issue Combo box control, Insert the Text label control -> Set its Text property as:

Concat(DataCardValue3.SelectedItems,Value,",")

Where,

1. DataCardValue3 = Combo box control name

• Once your app is ready, Save, Publish, and Preview the app when the user selects a value from the Issue Combo box control. Then, we will get the selected value in a text label control as shown below:

This is how to get the combobox selected value in Power Apps.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, I have explained how to set Power Apps combobox value based on another combobox. Also, I have shown you how to get the Combo box selected value in Power Apps.

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Preeti Sahu

Preeti Sahu is an expert in Power Apps and has over six years of experience working with SharePoint Online and the Power Platform. She is the co-author of Microsoft Power Platform: A Deep Dive book. As a Power Platform developer, she has worked on developing various tools using Power Apps and Power Automate. She also makes Microsoft 365 videos and shares them on YouTube.