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Dependent dropdown returning blank items

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On a SharePoint site I have several lists, below with their columns:

 

DEPARTMENTS

Department

 

ROLES

Department (lookup from DEPARTMENTS)

Role

 

APPROVERS

Department (lookup from DEPARTMENTS)

Role (lookup from ROLES)

Name

E-mail

 

I used PowerApps to edit the APPROVERS form, so that Role will be a dependent dropdown from ROLES based on the value from APPROVERS.Department.

 

With connections to APPROVERS and ROLES, after a lot of fidgeting I found a syntax that the Items field of the dropdown accepts: "Filter(ROLES,Departament.Value=DataCardValue1.Selected.Value)", where DataCardValue1 is the default ComboBox for APPROVERS.Department. This still throws up a warning about large data sets.

 

My problem now is that using the live form for a new item in APPROVERS, I select a Department, and the Roles dropdown return the correct number of items, but they are all blank. I have attached a screenshot that illustrates the issue, names are in Romanian.

 

I'm a complete beginner at what I'm trying to do, and I lack the knowledge to even begin to understand why I get a populated, blank dropdown.

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    MateiC Profile Picture
    48 on at

    After a good night's nightmare, I figured out that my Items formula was missing a direction towards a specific column from the results. I searched thorugh the formulas documentation and ended up with

     

    ShowColumns(Filter(ROLES,Departament.Value=DataCardValue1.Selected.Value),"Title")

     

    This finally makes the dropdown display the correct items. Now I have a different issue of the dropdown not passing the value to the list column, but I'll open a different thread for this.

  • banana1 Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    THANK YOU! This saved me so much time as I've been going around in circles trying to figure out why my values were showing blank. 

  • isaacross17 Profile Picture
    2 on at

    I've got an epiphany

     

    I had a column named "station" in my sharepoint list, but in reality that column real name was "egwi" i don't know why

     

    i had to user powerquery from powerbi in order to see the column name. hope it helps

     

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