People Picker Without Dropdown

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I am building a simple Power App to populate a SharePoint list. One field populates a name of an employee via a people picker. When I add this field to my app, it is a Combo Box. I do not want this field to have a dropdown - just a search box. Is this possible to switch to a simple search/text box instead of a combo box?

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,392 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Please explain how the Text Box knows what to put there? You are saying its a Search Input, but then what Control updates itself to then have that data in it?

It cannot be the one you used for the search too, it would drive everything bonkers. I mean there is a way but its... yeah I dont do that

So if you had a Label, for the Name, then you could use the Input be the search and the Label populate with the (first) record your search finds.

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nathankidd 16 on at

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Now that I think about it a bit more, what I am really looking for is to have the dropdown blank until a search is entered. The dropdown itself is fine, but I don't want the pre-populated names that show up before you search. Is that possible?

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RZ-24092124-0 14 on at

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I am actually looking for an asnwer for the exact same question! hoping for an answer

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WarrenBelz 153,073 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi RZ-24092124-0,

This is an adaption from this blog of mine using the same process. You will need a Text Input and a Label underneath it of a decent size to display the matching results - the user keeps typing until only one person is left in the Label and then presses Enter and it will be populated.

Firstly OnChange of the Text Input
With( { _Match: If( Len(Self.Text) > 0, Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm: Self.Text}) ) }, UpdateContext( { varMatch: Coalesce( First(_Match).DisplayName, Self.Text ) } ) )

then the Default of the Text Input
varMatch

If you are also using the Text Input this to display existing data from your data source - the Default
Coalesce( varMatch, Parent.Default )

Now the Text of the Label

If( Len(TextInputName.Text) > 0, Concat( Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm: TextInputName.Text}), DisplayName, ", " ) )

and lastly at Screen OnVisible or anywhere else you want to reset it
UpdateContext({varMatch: Blank()})

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