Set Default Values in Power Apps | Dropdown, Lookup, Choice, Date | SharePoint

This video is a step-by-step tutorial on how to set the default values of controls in Power Apps. We will set default values of Text Input, Drop downs, Combo boxes, Date Pickers, group of fields & the Form Control.
We will set Default value for Dropdown as "Select" or "All", Reset multiple controls to their default values, set default data card values for the form control connected to SharePoint (covers Text, Date, Lookup, Choice, Multi-Select Choice, Person type columns). The data sources covered here are SharePoint & Office 365 Users (to get current user & manager information), but the concepts are applicable to all data sources (Dataverse, SQL).

Video covers the following:
✅ Default values for controls/fields in PowerApps
✅ Default Date to Today, First/Last Day of Month, Add or Subtract Days to Date
✅ Default Dropdown field or set it to "Please Select"
✅ Default Combo box control (multi select & single select)
✅ Default Person to Current User or Manager
✅ Default Choice fields
✅ Default Date fields
✅ Default Multi-Select Choice fields
✅ Default Lookup Column from SharePoint
✅ Default Limit Choices in Dropdown
✅ Set Default Value based on AD Profile Properties

Helpful Links 🔗:
Power Apps SharePoint Column Syntax (Lookup, Choice, Person)

PowerApps Gallery connected Form Control

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Table of Contents:
00:00 - Introduction to Set Default Values in PowerApps
00:27 - Set default value for Text Input control
00:56 - Set Date Picker DefaultDate
01:36 - Default date to Today, First/Last date of Month etc.
03:26 - Set dropdown control default value
04:16 - Set "Please Select" as dropdown default value
07:07 - Combo box DefaultSelectedItems
09:19 - Reset multiple controls to Default Values
11:18 - Default Data Cards in Power Apps form control connected to SharePoint List
12:35 - Set Choice Column default value
14:44 - Set Text Column default value
15:03 - Set Date Column default value
15:39 - Set Person Column default value to Current User
16:18 - Set Person Column default value to Manager of current user
17:39 - Set Lookup Column default value
15:03 - Set Date Column default value
20:10 - Set Multi Select Column default value
21:02 - Demo of setting default values of Power Apps form control data cards
21:26 - Limit choices in combobox control
22:41 - Subscribe to Reza Dorrani channel

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