How to properly use an If statement in PowerApps when trying to toggle visibility of an element?

Question

I would like to toggle the visible property of a button that is nested in a Gallery in my PowerApp.

What I tried to was to go off of whether the parent was selected. I placed this formula inside the Visible property.

ink its a type issue, but I am not sure what is the best way to fix this.

If(Parent.Selected = true, true, false)

I received an "Invalid argument type" error on the "=" operator, so I think that perhaps I have a type mismatch or some other issue.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '19 at 17:45

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I feel like an idiot, because about 5 minutes after I asked the question I figured out the answer.

All I had to do was to use the followng as the conditional statement:

ThisItem.IsSelected

The full solution being:

If(ThisItem.IsSelected,true,false)

Maybe this can help another rookie too :)

answered Jul 22 '19 at 17:45

Sporran

If i'm not mistaken, because `ThisItem.IsSelected` evaluates to `true`/`false`, you can shorten your code to just `ThisItem.IsSelected`. You can do this for any statements that evaluate to t/f. – SeaDude May 05 '20 at 15:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '19 at 06:01

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I believe you could also simplify this by using ThisItem.IsSelected for the visible property of the button.

answered Jul 24 '19 at 06:01

SeaDude

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