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Hello, I have a dropdown control for each item in a gallery. How can I withdraw the text value from that? Tried numerou variants like ThisItem.Dropdown1.Selected.Value. Thank you

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WarrenBelz 154,494 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @JM-14081323-0,

You are close - ThisItem refers to the underlying data in the gallery, not a control output. Assuming that Value is the DisplayFields of the drop-down, then referencing it as
Dropdown1.Selected.Value

from within the same record will return a Text value providing it is a single selection control.

You might want elaborate on how you are using this output for a more specific answer.

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Hello @JM-14081323-0,

If the Dropdown is inside the gallery, you can usually get the selected value with:

[@Dropdown1].Selected.Value

or

Dropdown1.Selected.Value

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Sadly nothing gets me the text from a dropdown. That what you are saying of course works when there is one dropdown anywhere, but to me it seems there is a problem that dropdown is part of a gallery and applies for each item. I want to make a table from gallery and send it via email.

Gallery fills with collection and shows Title and Subtitle for each record and thats fine. Then there is that dropdown for each record, user needs to choose option from each one and submit. But the dropdown doesnt pass the value. I tried to add a text label into a gallery as well to extract the text value first but still nothing.

Concat(

galOKdelnik;

$"<tr>

<td>{Title3.Text}</td>

<td>{Subtitle3.Text}</td>

<td>{drpPlan.Value}</td>

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Hi @JM-14081323-0,

This should work

"<table>" & Concat( galOKdelnik.AllItems; "<tr> <td>" & Title3.Text & "</td> <td>" & Subtitle3.Text & "</td> <td>" & drpPlan.Selected.Value & "</td> </tr>" ) & "</table>"

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Hi Warren, had to do it the other way (make a collection from a gallery because I need to Add some more columns).

See my gallery on the picture and collection from it, everything seems very easy but dropdown still not passing values. Many thanks

The code is straightforward

ClearCollect(colPlan; galPlanDelnik.AllItems)

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I managed to get it to the text label

Text(drpPlan.Selected.Soupis) OR

//Text([@drpPlan].Selected.Soupis)

(Soupis is the only column in table where there are options for dropdown)

Anyway the text label behaves the same in gallery:

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