Trouble working with Distinct and Other Columns in Gallery filter

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Hi PowerApps Community,

I am having a little trouble with using Distinct and other columns from a SharePoint list.

Basically I have a SP list that has Project numbers, multiple records have that same project number associated.

I have a gallery on the first screen, where i would like to display unique project numbers so that user can click the arrow and the next screen will show the records relating to that project.

I had it working using distinct, including a searchbox using this formula:

Filter(Distinct(AccountsReceivable,Project),StartsWith(Result,SearchProject.Text))

Now, I have to add in a Date filter that filters on column "Actual Month" in my SP list.

However, because Distinct returns a table of distinct values, this wont let me work with other columns.

Here is the code I have tried and also tried different variations but no luck:

Filter(Distinct(AccountsReceivable,Project),
(DateFilter.Selected.Value="Filter by Date" || Actual Month = DateFilter.Selected.Value) &&
(StartsWith(Result,SearchProject.Text))
))

Should I be using a different function that Distinct here?

Any help greatly appreciated!

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Hi @ARAlmac

If you want to have two levels of grouping of your data, consider using the GroupBy() function. You can specify the levels as GroupBy(yourdata,"ColumnName1","ColumnName2","restofdata"). In the example below a contact list is grouped by State and City with the rest of the data shown in a subgallery with the items property, ThisItem.restofdata.

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@Drrickryp Thanks for suggestion,

Group by works, although it still doesnt let me work with the "Actual Month" column from my SP Data in the filter.. I am trying to use group by and also filter by a dropdown of dates.. here is what i have tried:

Filter(GroupBy(AccountsReceivable,"Project","Sales_x0020_Order_x0020_Line","Actual_x0020_Month"),DateFilter.SelectedText.Value = "Filter by Date" || Actual_x0020_Month.'Actual Month' = DateFilter.SelectedText.Value)

It doesnt like the actual month = date filter and says tables can not be used with this operand.. is there a way i can amend this to work with my dropdown filter?

attaching image to show screen, as you can see multiple projects with same name that need to be distinct

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