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Why am I not allowed to have dynamic strings for column names in PowerApps?

The poeple who developed Powerapps thought it would be a cool idea to force functions to be static for certain properties. They even said that it is by design (msft- person on the Powerapps forums). My question is why. complete foresight

I don't work at Microsoft, and I don't even condsider my self to be an average developer, but I cannot grasp the concept of forcing fuctions, which are meant to be dynamic to resolve. Imagine if you had a table in Excel where you had a sum function that took two cells A1 and B1 , but resolved the function and set it to a string at the next run, .. what could go wrong?

What is the reason for this madness?

EDIT: Okay, seems confirmed this is not by design, which I'm relieved to hear.

Solution

  • I don't know who said that this is by design - this is wrong. If you have an expression in the DisplayName property (and I was able to reproduce the same issue updating the data table control, so I'm guessing you're using the same). I work on the PowerApps team, and we'll have a fix for it coming out in a couple of weeks.

    As far as we could tell, this only affects the Data Table control, please let us know if this is not the case.