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Distinct function on condition based column

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Posted on by ForDrone94

Hi everyone,

 

I think I'm facing a very easy problem, I want to obtain different Items for a dropdown box by selecting a different column from the table "Options". The information of the column to select is in the ColumnVariable.

 

Distinct(Filter(Options;ID=13);ColumnVariable).Result

 

My problem is that if I run the code above I get the ColumnVariable as the only item in the dropdown.

Any Ideas?

 

Thanks

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    v-qiaqi@microsoft.com Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @ForDrone94,

    Do you want to select different column values dynamically from the Options table?

    Could you please share a bit more about your scenario?

     

    Actually, if you want to get distinct column values from the data source, you should reference to column name with a literal text rather than a variable.

    If you want to select column dynamically, you should use the exhaustive list of method.

     

     

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