Power Apps Select Multiple Items in A Gallery

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In this Power Apps tutorial, you'll learn how to add select and multi-select options to Power Apps galleries. The video focuses on integrating checkboxes into galleries, enabling you to select multiple items for actions like emailing or updating. You'll see a practical example with an inventory app, highlighting features like email sending and deep linking, though these advanced topics are not the main focus of the tutorial.

Key takeaways include:

1. Adding Checkboxes to Galleries: Discover how to insert checkboxes into your gallery for item selection.
2. Dynamic UI Elements: Explore how to use containers to show or hide UI elements based on selections.
3. Counting Selected Items: Understand how to count and display the number of selected items in the gallery.
4. Visibility Control: Learn about controlling the visibility of elements based on whether items are selected.
5. Select/Deselect All Functionality: Implement a 'Select All' feature and understand the logic behind it.

We emphasize the use of containers for an easier and more efficient design process. The tutorial is beginner-friendly, focusing on the core mechanics of multi-select functionality in Power Apps galleries.

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0:00 Start
0:29 Select Multiple Items demo
2:07 Using a Vertical Container and adding a check box
4:09 Counting the checked items
5:55 IsEmpty Checked Items in the gallery
7:38 Adding a Horizontal container to the mix
9:17 Select All checkbox controls

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[cmacdhon]

Thanks Shane. Because of you the people I work with think I'm smart.

[Michael_Burris]

Hey Shane! Thanks for all of the videos you put out. One thing I've noticed is that there are a decent amount of YouTube videos and other content out there about how to do things in Power Apps and about Power Platform certifications. I think all of this is great, but one video I'd love to see would be a video on what career paths are available for people who want to work full time in the Power Platform. I think that this is fairly established for people who do Power BI, but what does the day in the life of an Power App Maker or a Power Automate specialist look like? Maybe there are not more videos like this out there because the Power Platform is still pretty new not too sure, but a video that talks about the career paths someone can take with Power Platform would be something I'd be interested in.

[laidbouloussa]

Many thanks for this video!! am I the only one who can't find the reset property on the checkbox object?

[matheusfagundes]

IDK Why my checkbox doesn't have Reset propertie can you help me out?

[EricAlexandreFr]

hey Shane, thanks for this video. It helped me understand how vertical and horizontal containers work. I never used them before.
However I have found a small glitch. If you unselect checkboxes in the gallery and click the Select All button, unselected checkboxes are not selected again.
To fix this issue I added in OnSelect of the 'Select All' button, the same way than what was done for the Unselect button.

[Theoriginal]

This is exactly what I was looking for 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[Dev-rmwq]

Hey shane can please help me how to patch a multi select combobox inside a gallery to a sharepoint list when the column type selected in the combobox is people or group type?

[lxz]

ur..what's going on about your red face

[antoniomartinezjurado]

Thanks, Shane. You're always my inspiration. Only a question: is there a limit (100) with this code? I have more than 100 items and the only way I have found to increase de Countrows is running trhough the gallery untill the end. Is there any other way to avoid this limit? Thanks.

[cristiandonarini]

Hey Shane! I need an information, for you is possible manage all ms planner with power app?
I have had a good result with power bi, but it’s just to view.
I need a power apps that are able to modify all my plan.
It’s possible or I can found some limitations?
Thanks for all ! You are my guide on ms word

[komalahmeds]

Hello Shane, thank you for the video. Do you have a video on using 'select all' option to only select filtered items in the gallery, rather than all items in the gallery?

[john]

on new controls Reset, Default properties doesn't exist any more, or at least on my end in power apps for Teams

[weixiongng]

Hi Sir, how do you add the selected items from the gallery into the collection?

when I select multiple items from the gallery, only 1 get added into the collection

[hmj]

Instead of showing the number of gallery items checked, what if you wanted to show in a label outside the gallery the actual selections? I tried using the concatenate function and failed.

[mogahidsabeel]

Happy new year 🎉 & Thanks for the video, for the next video😅:
If you can add how to patch the checked in anther page? Maybe visualize the checked ✔️ item before patching form another page 🙏🏽.
I used a Navigation function but didn't quite work 😂.
Have a great day

[stephendarier]

Good Evening Shane
Hope you are well and happy new year all the best going forard for the year ahaed.
At the end of the video you asked for requests, you also meantioned the next video was going to be on looping throw for all and the deep linking. Please may you add into the link deep linking side of the request a understaning standing of using the http// deep link and then using the mobile app launcher where you can deep link with Parma's into a mobile Micorosft app. My question is how would you do the mobile app launch from lets say a email or a link on a task in planner, its simple and all your deep linking vidoes work like maigc but would like to be able to send the person to the moble app if they have Power Apps downloaded on the mobile. Say you give options in the email to open in a web browser or in the mobile Microsoft Power Apps passing the same prams without having to open the web browser and then launch then to mobile from within the Online App.

Hope I explained that well.

Thank you and love the videos ❤

[stuart-saunders]

Excellent as always and reinforces things I'd already put into practice. Reassuringly I'd done this the same way! :) HNY

[TheKalipolis]

Shane, THANK YOU! This is genius. Exactly what I was looking for to solve a problem selecting multiple items.

[ajingar]

Hi Shane, many thanks for this very useful video! I have come across a strange 'anomaly', which I thought I'd share in case you have also come across this too. I used your technique to count how many items have been selected in a gallery via a checkbox and it works fine when you just have a normal gallery in a maincontainer of a 'Header and footer' screen layout say. The figure is displayed in a label just like your example. So I used: CountRows(Filter(Gallery1.AllItems, Checkbox1.Value)). However, if you edit the gallery and add a container first, then add a checkbox and other fields that you wish to display within that container, then whenever you select the checkbox, using that same formula - we get the total number of rows displayed every time we select any of the checkboxes, rather than the count of how many were selected. So in my case even though I selected one checkbox, the figure says 8, as there's eight items in total. Is there some formulaic way we can overcome that, or is this one of the 'features' that we just have to accept, and not have containers for each row of data?

[TheNilyog]

nice to learn with you Shane. Thanks for posting this type of video. Encouraging the new people to learn. Thank you really great!❤