Reset – How to reset a Power Apps gallery?

Introduction

Reset is a function I use pretty often. It resets a control to its Default property value. To learn more, click here.

Tip - Reset a gallery

Resetting most controls is pretty straightforward. However, when it comes to galleries, it isn't as easy in one particular scenario. That is when you want no record in the gallery to be selected when the gallery is reset. Leaving the Default property blank should work right? But it doesn't.

There are many use cases where you may want the behavior as described above. One such example is when we have a gallery of accounts and another gallery of contacts, with the contacts gallery displaying contacts for the selected account. So when you reset the accounts gallery, you would expect nothing to show in the contacts gallery.

To have no record in a gallery selected, set the Default property of the gallery to {}. Then when you call the Reset function, it will work as expected. To illustrate this, here is a quick demo:

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