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Drop down list - jump to entry by letter

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Posted on by mm_Jeff

I've been building a Power App for a client where they can select one of their client names from a dropdown menu. This dropdown menu is being fed by a Sharepoint list for its content. Now that this Sharepoint list is growing to quite a number, we've come across an issue. Usually, if you open a dropdown menu in let's say a webform, then click on the letter K on you keyboard, the active selection would jump to the first option in the list starting with a K.

Our dropdown in the Power App does not do this and I haven't found an easy answer yet on if this behaviour is possible or not. Maybe I havent found the right search terms...

Does anyone know if there's a way to quickly go through a drop down list's content like this?

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Aaron_Morva 38 on at

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Hey @mm_Jeff,

As far as I know, the dropdown element does not support the desired requirement of yours. You can change the dropdown to a combobox, then in the search bar of the combobox the search for the prefixes can be unified. This should be very close to what you are currently trying to achieve.

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developerAJ 4,643 on at

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Hi @mm_Jeff

as Aaron said you need to use the combobox not the dropdown.

here is an example for reference:
mycombobox name is combobox5 and i am filtering Test sp list using title column.
item property as shown in pic;Displayfield and searchfield property same Title. This will function properly even if ur list crosses 2000items

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