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I am trying to super simplify the ability to search a table. One though is that I could create dropdown that would list the column names of a table and provide a text field to enter text for a search on the column chosen. Is this possible? Either that or provide a second dropdown that had the results of the column chosen from the first dropdown.
I can see going this route if I want to programmatically grab the column names. I don't want all of the columns however. I think @swaminawale might have hit on a more simplistic and precise way of handling this although it does involve the manual input of the column names. I need to think about this a little more. Ideally I want to get to a solution that is going to save me real estate in my app since the results section is going to have a lot of data and I prefer not having to make the user scroll or navigate around alot.
Creating a dropdown to select a column to search could be overkill if I can just use a search box as @AARON_C suggested. However, I can see using a dropdown if I need to do something other than or in addition to a text search. For example, if one of my columns was a start date of the type date then selecting that in the dropdown might swap out the text field for search with a date picker.
This sounds like a super simple solution if I can use a single text box and search columns that are searchable and that I designate should be searched. I'll need to test this out as I get further down the road with this build.
Hi @futr_vision,
Do you want to select column names from dropdown?
Actually, we could using the following formula to achieve this:
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Answers (ClearCollect(
colTable1,
TableName
);
// get the column headers
Set(
varColumnNames,
Distinct(
Ungroup(
MatchAll(
JSON(
colTable1,
JSONFormat.IgnoreBinaryData
),
"([^""]+?)""\s*:"
).SubMatches,
"SubMatches"
), Value)
)Then populate the dropdown with the variable:
varColumnNamesHi @futr_vision ,
You can do it and it is possible. In my recent project I did the same.
I've created a dropdown and in that I manually entered the column names ( because I didn't need all columns) and had a text input next to it. then applied a filter formula.
Same way you can achieve it.
Hi @futr_vision,
You can just use the Search function on the Items property of your gallery. Search only works with columns that are of type Text. This would looks something like:
Search('Data source', TextInput1.Text, "Column 1", "Column 2", "Column 3")
// Change TextInput1 to your Text Iput name
// Change Columns 1, 2, 3 to Columns in your Data source you would like to search
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