How to show a Choice Field as Radio Buttons in Power Apps Canvas app

I am back with another blog on Power Apps and this time I am going to show you on how to display a Choice field as Radio button list of forms.

Did you ever had the following requirements?

• You need to display a Choice Field of SharePoint as Radio button list on Canvas app form?
• You need to display a Choice Field of DataVerse as Radio button list on Canvas app form?

If you have any of these requirements, you are on the right blog. Let’s see how we can accomplish this. I created a choice field in SharePoint – Document type. And I set the Display choices using option to Radio Buttons (bottom of the screenshot).

However in the canvas app it still display as dropdown.

So let’s see how we can display it in the desired radio button format. First we need to unlock the DataCard for any modifications.

The next step is to remove the default combobox control and insert a Radio control in place of it.

I set the Items property of the Radio to the below formula.

The name of my List is ‘Sample List’ and my field name is ‘Document Type’. You may need to change the formula accordingly.

And you should see the Radio buttons displaying with the choice options.

There will be some errors shown because we remove the default combobox control. Fix that. It will mostly be formulas referring that control.

We are done with the UI part. But how about the updating the record back. Afterall we no longer have the default combobox control in the DataCard. To do this, let’s follow the below steps.

In the OnSelect of the radio button, I set a variable to store the selected radio button value. Radio2 is the name of my radio button control.

Then in the Update property of the DataCard, I set the same property.

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Debajit Dutta
Business Solutions MVP