Dataverse Choices Columns in PowerApps

Since a few months I am working for a client who is trying to do miracles using Power Platform. I am fortunate enough that he picked me as a developer lead for this project.

We have been working with PowerApps, Power Automate and Dataverse and now I thought of sharing a few tips to ease your work if you are new to Power Automate + Dataverse as a combination.

I will be sharing a few more tips in my upcoming blogs but to get started, Lets take choices columns.

Unlike SharePoint or any other data source, Dataverse choices are different so basically I cannot go to my powerapp and check Department = "SharePoint" in dataverse. You will keep on getting error.

Dataverse assigns a ID to each choice that we add to a dataverse column. Something like below.

How do I know what is the ID of my choice?

You need to go to the table that you are using in Dataverse, click on column. From panel on right select "Edit Choices" and then Click on Eclipses besides choice and click on "View More". You can see the choice value in there.

How to check this in conditions?

If you are trying to apply any filter then condition would be something like 'Department' = 'Department'."SharePoint" rather than Department = "SharePoint".

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Keyur Pandya

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