No Item to Display in Power Apps – How to Solve

While working in Power Apps, I encountered an error message, “No item to display,” when submitting the edit form.

Quick answer: The message appears when an edit form is in Edit mode but has no record to show, which often happens right after a submit. Set the form’s DefaultMode to FormMode.New, or use SubmitForm(Form1); NewForm(Form1) in the button’s OnSelect, so the form opens as a blank new record.

In this Power Apps article, I will explain why a Power Apps error, ‘No item to display‘, occurs during item submission, and how to resolve it.

Refer to the error image below.

Error: No item to display in Power Apps

Let me describe how I faced this error while working on the Power Apps Edit Form.

In Power Apps, I have an Edit form and a Button control. That Power Apps edit form is connected to a SharePoint list named Employee Tasks.

Every field on the form is pulled directly from the corresponding SharePoint list. A user will open the app, enter the field values, and click the SUBMIT button. Once they submit the form, a new form will appear simultaneously to enter the new record. Also, all form records will be saved in the SharePoint list.

But when I clicked on the SUBMIT button [in Preview mode], instead of showing a new Power Apps form, I got an error message like “No item to display,” as shown below. At the same time, the record was saved in the SharePoint list.

Solved: No item to display in Power Apps

Let’s see the simple solution to overcome this issue:

Whenever you add the Power Apps Edit form, the Default mode is always set to Edit mode [as shown in the image below].

Usually, the Edit mode property is used to edit the form values. But in our case, we need to display the new form each time the user submits their entry.

To fix this issue, select the Power Apps Edit form from the Properties pane -> Expand the Default mode and set it to New, as shown below:

Alternatively, we can specify the NewForm(Form1) expression on the Button’s OnSelect property: (also, you can provide it on the Screen’s OnVisible property)

For that, select the SUBMIT button and set its OnSelect property to the code below:

OnSelect = SubmitForm(Form1); NewForm(Form1)

Where,

Form1 = Power Apps Edit Form Name

Finally, save, publish, and preview the app. After filling out the form, click the SUBMIT button. The information will also be stored in the SharePoint list.

Also, a new Power Apps form will appear instead of displaying an error message now [as shown in the image below].

This is how to fix the Power Apps error: no item to display in preview mode.

Conclusion

I hope this article helped you to fix the error No item to display while working with the Power Apps edit form.

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