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Posted on by 997 Super User 2024 Season 1

Hi,

I have created a collection that is filtered by the Manager's Name in the Sharepoint list. Then I would like to create a new collection that filters the Requester column which is a people column in the Leave Request list and match it with the Name in the subordinates collection. 

 

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I tried using this formula but has errors.

ClearCollect(subordinates,Filter(Employee,'Manager''s Name'.Email=CurrentUser));
ForAll(subordinates,
Collect(NewSubordinates,Filter('Leave-Request',Requester.DisplayName=LookUp(subordinates,Name.DisplayName=Requester.DisplayName))));

Can someone please help me?

 

Thank you.

 

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  • WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,409 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @syhrh ,

    Try this

    With(
     {
     wSub:
     Filter(
     Employee,
     'Manager''s Name'.Email = CurrentUser
     )
     },
     ForAll(
     wSub As aCol,
     Collect(
     NewSubordinates,
     Filter(
     'Leave-Request',
     Requester.DisplayName = aCol.Name.DisplayName
     )
     )
     )
    );

     

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  • syhrh Profile Picture
    997 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @WarrenBelz It works but it also creates many duplicates and add up into the collection

  • WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,409 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @syhrh ,

    That is probably more an issue with your data . You only really have two choices - multiple (as posted previously) or single (the first) matches in your List - single as below

    With(
     {
     wSub:
     Filter(
     Employee,
     'Manager''s Name'.Email = CurrentUser
     )
     },
     ForAll(
     wSub As aCol,
     Collect(
     NewSubordinates,
     LookUp(
     'Leave-Request',
     Requester.DisplayName = aCol.Name.DisplayName
     )
     )
     )
    );

     

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  • syhrh Profile Picture
    997 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @WarrenBelz 

    it works but it has delegation issues

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    WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,409 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @syhrh 

    Assuming that you will never need to look in more than the newest 500 (or whatever your Delegation limit is) records in 'Leave Request'

    With(
     {
     wSub:
     Filter(
     Employee,
     'Manager''s Name'.Email = CurrentUser
     ),
     wLeave:
     Sort(
     'Leave-Request',
     ID,
     Descending
     )
     },
     
     ForAll(
     wSub As aCol,
     Collect(
     NewSubordinates,
     LookUp(
     wLeave,
     Requester.DisplayName = aCol.Name.DisplayName
     )
     )
     )
    )

     

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  • syhrh Profile Picture
    997 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @WarrenBelz Can I use Filter instead? If I use LookUp, there are some rows from SharePoint that are not retrieved.

  • WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,409 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @syhrh ,

    Yes, you can use Filter, but as you said earlier, there may be duplicates.

     

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  • syhrh Profile Picture
    997 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @WarrenBelz If I put First, will there be no duplicates?

  • WarrenBelz Profile Picture
    156,409 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @syhrh ,

    No - First is exactly the same result as LookUp.

  • syhrh Profile Picture
    997 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @WarrenBelz Oh, okay then. Thank you.

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