Sort, Filter, and Distinct on Gallery

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Posted on by aebara

Anyone know how I could add a filter by user input in this gallery items property?

This is my current code:

Sort(Distinct('Safety Training', 'Employee Name'), Result, Ascending)

Thank you!

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WarrenBelz 153,026 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @aebara ,

You did not say what the user was using to do this, but it would go in here

Sort( Distinct( Filter( 'Safety Training', FieldName = UserInput ), 'Employee Name' ), Result )

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Hi @WarrenBelz,

Whoops, sorry!

Currently, the user is being presented with a sorted, distinct-ized gallery. When they click an item in the gallery, it loads that info to a data table.

I basically want to add a text_input box that will filter the gallery by employee name.

Your code does work! Thank you 😊

~~But now that I see it working, I have a new question...~~

Is there a way to display sorted and distinct results in the gallery before a user sends an input? Currently, the gallery is blank until you type the majority of a name... I was hoping to just have the list displayed in alphabetical order, updating once you type in the textbox
^ Oops, fixed this. Had some sneaky text in the input_box ^

Which brings me to one last inquiry... It seems I need to type the entire employee name for the filter function to work. For that reason, I think I would be better off with a search function, or startswith, rather than filter. Do you know how I could combine one of those functions with sort and distinct? I tried dropping them in place of the filter function, but of course that isn't good enough for PowerApps 🙃
^ Fixed as well

Sort( Distinct( Filter( 'Safety Training', StartsWith('Employee Name', TextInput1.Text) ), 'Employee Name' ), Result )

Thanks again @WarrenBelz!

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CW 1,044 on at

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I used this in my scenario and worked great for me! Now I feel like a rock star or high end software engineer 😅

If this is useful to anyone, this how I used it:

Sort( Distinct( Filter('Part Designations','Tune:SetListtxt'.Value = "Yes" ), ThisRecord.Tune.Value ), Result )

although I see a delegation warning at the 'Tune:SetListtxt'.Value = area.

Thanks Warren.

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