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Pn1995 While I'm sure there's a solution to your exact use case, I wonder if you can achieve what is effectively the same result with a different approach that wouldn't take as much effort to implement. What if you added some branching logic to make a new field appear in your form when Other is chosen that prompts them to type in their value?
Thanks Matt Coats
If we had another field added, we would want it saved back to the same field in a SharePoint list that had the drop down, so i'm not sure it would help would it?
Also the form already has quite a few fields so having another would add to an already crowded page
Pn1995, for your ideal scenario to work, you're asking to break Choice fields. While I'm not well-versed in the what PowerApps can do to override a list's data integrity rules, I'm not sure it can do that without creating some issues for you. Your next best lead would be to see if you can use PowerApps to force a limited amount of choices in a Single Line of Text field, but someone could always move behind the PowerApps form and interact with the list directly.
You know your business need better than I do, but I would seriously examine the need to have all of those values in the same field. Unless PowerApps comes through with either of the solutions above, you might need to decide whether you want--integrity of your data in two fields or taking a risk in that integrity and having one field.
