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Search function won't display items

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

My app is connected to Excel file hosted on OneDrive. 

 

I have a basic text input to act as a search bar. 

 

My Gallary.Items is set to a basic search formula:

 

Search(Table2Data,SearchBar.Text,"MDN")

But the gallary does not show any items when I launch the app unless I type something into the search box and then delete it. 

 

Am I missing something here?

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    This is a known bug that happens with Search()

     

    To solve this add this to your code:

     

    If(
 IsBlank(SearchBar.Text),
 Table2Data,
 Search(
 Table2Data,
 SearchBar.Text,
 "MDN"
 )
)

     

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I solved this problem as shown below:

     

    2017-10-19_13-59.png

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