Working with Polymorphic Lookup (multi-table column) in Power Apps: AsType and IsType Functions Explained

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog, I will show how you can typecast polymorphic lookup columns to specific table types to compare and get the value. For typecasting polymorphic lookup using PowerFx formula, you can use the AsType function. The AsType function is very useful whenever you want to typecast a …
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