Power Apps SetFocus and Scroll to top of a Form 

Awesome Shane.. I still remember for one of my projects.. we actually moved from one screen to another..but in second screen the focus was at the bottom..so likewise we added textinput and hid it behind another control and did setfocus on screen visible

Thanks for another helpful video, Shane! I just tried this and it works well (at least so far as I can see) by doing what you suggest: adding the text input into the top card of a form as you showed, setting the border, etc. to all be transparent -- but then setting the text input's DisplayMode property to DisplayMode.View.

Thanks mman.. That's a neat trick.... Now I ccann fool around with the forum.. You should fo this tricks more often

Hey Shane! Your Videos are amazing! Thanks for all you do!!

Thanks. This solution with the 0x0 text input worked out.

Thank you Shane, this works in my app. Great job explaining.

Excellent, your videos are the best!!

Ha, so good. At first, I was like: "Shane, just make it's Visible property to false!" So, thanks for the 0x0 tip!!

Just what I've been looking for 👍. I've also now looked at the documentation and it says you can use set focus on a Label control, so you could use the label of the first data card (disclaimer: haven't actually tried this yet!)

Thanks for you amazing video, but could we put the focus in the first item of a gallery? How to do it?

Hi Shane, this doesn't work as well in a Mobile Canvas app. This is because when the cursor is focused into a text input box, the phone automatically brings up it's keyboard, which can be confusing for users as the text input box isn't really visible. Would be cool if there was a better work around for mobile canvas apps.

Set the field boarder to red so the user can see where to look

Unfortunately it doesn't work with a rich text edit field inside of a data card. However, I created a text input inside that data card that was 0 width and it moved to the top but there was nothing showing as having the caret but if the user doesn't know their intuition simply says click inside the rich text editor and it works fine. It just looks like it scrolled to the top. Thanks

Great video, can you please have something on pagination in powerapps?

Thanks Shane, this is awesome!

Thanks Shane! Now the only problem is that I have to go and update all of my apps where I need this but hey, it's all good.

Thanks Shane!

Hey Shane thats awesome!!! Do you think that you could do a video on setting up a Contact Tracing Sign In Form with somme of your cool tricks and ideas. As the whole world is living in an age of COVID

thank you soo much!!

How to create the powerapps which is in scrollable all the way to bottom and it should display the rectangular field which has the name of powerapps should be visible at all the time

HI @ShanesCows App Keyboard tabbing moves focus to Browser controls. How to resolve this

Hello sir please upload the part 3 of responsive power app series

keep following you for ever :D

If we click button on main page and navigate to 2nd page; hence set 'setfocus' on Control in 2nd page?

How can we setfocus in a Gallery Control? SetFocus to the first item is their other way?

Hi All, Hoping someone here can help. I have three forms on separate screens. All three flow into a fourth screen. On the fourth screen I have a submit button - but I want to submit the form dynamically based upon which screen the user filled in - I am struggling to do this. I have set up a text label which displays the form name based upon an if statement which captures the form name based upon the original screen used by the user - how can I feed this into the SubmitForm function, so that the correct form is updated dependent upon how the user has arrived at the fourth screen? Thank you in advance.

I'm going round and round with chatgpi trying to simply (yeah right lol) set forcus to a dropdown within a container at the top of the screen. Can you point me in the right direction, please?? If i give this app to the users without it, i just know they're going my why they have to click on the screen to select a value.

Good day. Please show the development of an application for working with a data collection terminal. (TSD is with a red ray). To be able to collect and write data to the Excel file. Thank you very much.)

Hi Sir, I have implemented auto save function in canvas app data source is share point . every 30 sec patch will be trigger once completed patch the the data store in share point list again I updating the record in canvas app after 30 sec the form goes to top how to fix the the issue please guide me sir

Hi Shane, In this case if I have a gallery this solution not working, only forms!! You know something about the gallery?

Hi, @Shane Young ! This tip is very nice... I create a Editable Grid and now... I have this problem with set focus. Do you have other good tip for this? Thanks!

Hey Shane, How can we use the approvals Connector straight out of Power apps without Power Automate, Looks like it is in Preview at the moment.

Any ideas how to implement similar idea in a gallery? Have a filter and regions. When changing regions, the scroll is in middle of a gallery vs the top. I see someone posted an idea in the community to vote on.

Hi Shane, My question is not related to the topic but maybe you can help me with. Could you please let me know if its possible to create Power App form based on Sharepoint list but : - one field in form needs to have drop box where you can select distinct values from sql server column ( for example distinct values of customers) - you can select one value (lets say Customer = Hitachi) - after submit selected value in form(from sql server) is visible on sharepoint list in column formatted like : "Single line of text" Thank you for your help in advance.

Hi Shane, thanks for the great videos and ideas in this one but I’ve a problem with SetFocus which kind of works in the way I want it to, but struggles with one aspect. The form I’m working on is quite a size and is a scrollable canvas app with up to four sections and a variable number of fields in each section (dependent upon choices from above). Each section has a button which ‘saves’ the form and field values using a Patch command. After the ‘save’ I want to return to the relative position on the form, however ‘all’ that SetFocus does is take the cursor to the correct field (in the appropriate section) - what is doesn’t do is scroll the form down to that field’s position and therefore show it on screen. I hope this makes sense. I checked out if it was something to do with my form by creating a test screen, having a button with a ‘Save’ and a ‘SetFocus’ and it still hops back to the top of the screen once the save has happened. The cursor is placed in the correct field but the form doesn’t reposition itself. If there is anything you can recommend I do, or if I’m doing something wrong please advise as this is a real pain in the butt. Regards, and thanks a lot. Alan C.

Hi shane do you encounter an error/bug lately in powerapp canvass? In preview mode or using Alt + Mouse CLick control for testing: When i tried to select a row in my gallery - i have a Set(varid, thisitem.ID) code and then transitioning to a new screen with Form Control but when the new screen appear, it hangs and the loading bar on the top of the canvas is stuck in loading Thank you.

Hi Shane Thank you for your awesome learning video... I have one question regarding session time out . The session gets logged out in between users punching data hence they are losing data rather storing database is their any solution for this.. they all are using chrome

Hi Shane, im trying to figure out how to do the same thing on a multiline text field connected to a datasource, this field receives updates from the datasource. I need to scroll automatically to the botton. Any Ideas? Is any property to control scroll position for fields?

recently I came across some tutorial videos on MS platform, probably some intro to PA and i'm listening thinking heyyy some familiar voice in the background... did i get accidentally open yt and Shane's video? :D and now is my concern, did i recognize your voice there? PS as always thanks for video! :)))

Hej Shane, I know this question does not have anything to do with the video but I was wondering if there is even a possibility to create a dropdown menu that will contain multiple sharepoint lists (all of them have the same data) and then select one of the lists through dropdown menu and work with that particular list in the browsegallery?

🔦🔍 Thanks

Hi Shane, Thank you for your video and i’m seeking your assistance, Its about Sharepoint security, is there any way to stop sharing the Sharepoint site (Data Source) for users who are submitting forms through a app created on PowerApps, What i mean is, i dont want the users to see the content sites.

Does it work, yes. Is this an actual solution to the problem, no way in hell. Adding extra "invisible" elements is hacky AF. I would only use this since there is no way to properly do it. Not blaming shane however. (looking at you MS)

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