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Posted on 6 Feb 2021 08:55:13 by 716

Hello Power Apps Community,

Can you help please... and I hope I can explain this correctly...

 

I am building a canvas app, using Dataverse for Teams.

I have two tables: "Employee" which is the parent table, and "Transaction" which is the child table.
So one "Employee" record to many "Transaction" records.

 

I have an Employee screen with a gallery showing all the Employee records.

I have two icons for each record, the icons are called "Open" and "Closed".

 

Search Employee Gallery.png


When I click the "Open" icon or the "Closed" icon, on the relevant "OnSelect" property, it takes me to another screen (Transaction) with another gallery for the child table: Transaction. 

The expression is this: 


Navigate
(
                ScreenEmployeeTransaction,
                ScreenTransition.None,
                {lclThisEmployee: galEmployeeSearch.Selected} 
)

When I land on the child screen and gallery (Transaction) I want to see all related Transaction records of the parent (Employee) record I selected in the previous screen. 
So on the gallery I filtered the Transaction "Items" property with the below expression: 
 
Filter(
         Transactions,
         'Employee Name'.'Employee' = lclThisEmployee.'Employee'

)

Again, this is working great. So if I select John Smith on the Employee gallery I move to the Transaction screen and gallery and just see John Smith's Transactions.

My request: After all that, what I'm now looking to do is:

1. If on the Employee screen, image at the top, I click on "Open" then when I navigate to the Transaction screen and gallery I only want to see John's Smith's Transactions with the Status Reason of "Active".
2. If on the Employee screen, image at the top, I click on "Closed" then when I navigate to the Transaction screen and gallery I only want to see John's Smith's Transactions with the Status Reason of "Inactive".

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. 

Garry

PS. Model-driven apps for Dataverse for Teams cannot come quick enough for me. Can't wait to leave these canvas apps behind! Haha.

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    9,266 Moderator on 06 Feb 2021 at 16:48:23
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    Thanks @GarryPope ! I'll update my formula to reflect the right solution ...

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    716 on 06 Feb 2021 at 16:44:40
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    @gabibalaban Woohoo! Woohoo! Woohoo!

    You can't believe how happy you've made me. Thanks so much. And please don't apologise, you helped so much. 

    When I added the formula in it worked perfectly! The labels in the gallery were not populating, but I put an extra ) at the end of your formula and the labels populated with data. 

    Thanks so much for spending you weekend helping me. I really appreciate it. 

    All the best,

    Garry

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    9,266 Moderator on 06 Feb 2021 at 16:08:31
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    @GarryPope 

    Auch ...please excuse me. I skip the part that you work with DataVerse.

    For Dataverse, the right formula is:

    Filter(
             Transactions,
             'Employee Name'.'Employee' = lclThisEmployee.'Employee' && 
             If (selectedStatusReason="Active",
                        'Status Reason'='Status Reason (Transactions)'.'Active',
                        'Status Reason'='Status Reason (Transactions)'.'Inactive'

              )

    )

    Once again sorry for inconvenince.

     

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    716 on 06 Feb 2021 at 14:22:50
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    Hello @gabibalaban,

    It's most probably my terrible explanation. Thanks for all your help.

     

    Here's the Transaction table:

    Transaction table.png 

    Here's the relationship structure for the Transaction table.

     

    Transaction relationships.png

     

    Thanks very much,

    Garry

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    9,266 Moderator on 06 Feb 2021 at 12:24:12
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    @GarryPope 

    There is something I miss ... Can you show the table structure of Transaction table ? 

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    716 on 06 Feb 2021 at 11:27:25
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    Hello @gabibalaban,

    Thanks for replying again. Sorry, mate, but that didn't work.

    I wrote the expression like below:

     

    Filter(
    Transactions,
    'Employee Name'.'Employee' = lclThisEmployee.'Employee' && 'Status Reason'.Value = selectedStatusReason
    )
     
    But it still didn't work unfortunately. Sorry.

    Value error.png
     
    When I mouse over the .Value the error is Name isn't valid. This identifier isn't recognized.
    Thanks,
    Garry
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    9,266 Moderator on 06 Feb 2021 at 11:08:01
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    @GarryPope 

    Most probably the error is due to the fact that your status reason column is a choice type one.

    Use ‘Status Reason’.Value instead.

     

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    716 on 06 Feb 2021 at 10:56:11
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    Hello @gabibalaban,

    Thanks for replying. Especially on a Saturday. I really appreciate this. 
    So the first part worked on my Open or Closed button, which is great. 

    When I added the second expression to the Transaction gallery, I got the below error:

    "We can't evaluate your formula because the values being compared in the formula aren't the same type."

    Error on formula.png

     

    Any thoughts on this please? No worries if not.

    Garry

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    9,266 Moderator on 06 Feb 2021 at 09:31:14
    Re: Filter Gallery by variable and Status Reason

    Hi @GarryPope,

    Set the onSelect property of the Open/Close button to:

    Navigate(
                    ScreenEmployeeTransaction,
                    ScreenTransition.None,
                    {lclThisEmployee: galEmployeeSearch.Selected, selectedStatusReason:"Active" /"Inactive" } 
    )
    (choose Active / Inactive - based on the button you set it) 
    Based on this, change the filter for the second gallery to:
    Filter(
             Transactions,
             'Employee Name'.'Employee' = lclThisEmployee.'Employee' && 'Status Reason'=selectedStatusReason

    )

     

    Hope it helps !

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