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I have a couple of questions around the uses of Combobox's

I have created a 3 SharePoint Lists

a. Sales - lists all Customer Orders and what they have ordered etc

b. Parts List - list of all parts

c. Customer list - list of all Customers

1. Firstly I want to use a combo box to filter for all a Customers Orders, which I will work on but I cannot see all the fields in the SharePoint list especially the one named "Customers" so cannot start

2. on the edit form I want a combobox to point to parts list and a second one to Customer List for data Entry.

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KrishnaV 5,023 on at

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Hi @AndrewJRoberts ,

Please follow the below steps:
Add all the 3 lists to the APP
Add combo box set the items with the below formula

Sort(SampleList,Customer,Ascending)
Repeat the same for the other columns.

I hope this resolved your issue if you see any challenge/need further help please let me know I am always happy to do it for my community.

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Krishna
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Hi@AndrewJRoberts,
Now let's tackle your problems one by one.
1/ I agree with @KrishnaV, please make sure you have connected all the three SP lists to your App.
What is your 'Customers Orders' column type? Is it a Choice or a Text?
If it is a Choice column, add a ComboBox and set the Items property as below

Choices(Sales.'Customer Orders')

If it is a Text column, add a ComboBox and set the Items property as below

Distinct(Sales,'Customer Orders')

What's more, if you want to do some filtering based on the ComboBox selected, you need a Gallery and set the Items as below

Filter(Sales,'Customer Orders'=ComboBox1.Selected.Result)// Result could be replaces based on the 'Customer Orders' column type

2/ Could you please share more about your App configuration?
@AndrewJRoberts wrote:
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2. on the edit form I want a combobox to point to parts list and a second one to Customer List for data Entry.
Does this second one mean a second ComboBox or a TextInput?
If you need 2 ComboBoxes to filter the options within the corresponding fields, you can refer to the solution provided for the first question.
Please share more about your App, a screenshot would be great.
Best Regards,
Qi

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KrishnaV 5,023 on at

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Hi @AndrewJRoberts ,

I see you liked my reply, is there anything I am missing to mark my reply as a solution?

I hope this resolved your issue if you see any challenge/need further help please let me know I am always happy to do it for my community.

Regards,
Krishna
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AndrewJRoberts 49 on at

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Thank You Krishna, I was trying and failing to multi-task, I added the 3 lists as suggested and got the Combo Box working. I have made some changes to my naming of Columns in the sharepoint tables ie. removing spaces etc.

I have a long way to go with this App so I will be shouting out.

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Hi
I have had a bit of success, and I have made a few changes to the SharePoint list "Sales"
Firstly I changed the "Customer" Column to "Purchaser" and made it text and not a choice.

So I ensured that all 3 lists were showing in the app as suggested by @KrishnaV,
I changed from a combo box to a dropdown box, all ok, so I thought I would get clever!
In BrowseScreen1
OnVisible - ClearCollect(collectallcustomers,{Result:"ALL"});Collect(collectallcustomers,Distinct(Sales,Purchaser))

In the Dropdown Box
Items - collectallcustomers

Success that all works
In BrowsGallery1
Items - If(cmbSearch1.Selected.Result="ALL",Distinct(Sales,Purchaser),Filter(Sales,Purchaser=cmbSearch1.Selected.Result))
The filter works but no text is shown

Andy

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