Filter and sortby column

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Posted on by Kmayes

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I have a gallery and text input on a screen.

On the gallery items I have:

If(

IsBlank(TextInput.Text),

SortByColumns('2nd Stage Reviews', "Created", Descending),

SortByColumns(

Filter('2nd Stage Reviews', StartsWith(field_3, TextInput.Text)),

"Created",

Descending

)

)

Ultimately I want it to show the latest 200 rows from the dataset plus filter by the gallery by the text that is entered into the text input, however the filter is not always working it works with some text that is entered and not others, is there a logical reason for this happening?

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Vahid Ghafarpour 697 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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StartsWith is delegable only for certain data sources and fields.
When Power Apps hits a non-delegable function, it only pulls the first 500–2000 records locally, depending on app settings.
So if the matching value isn’t in the first batch, the Filter() won't find it, even if it exists in the dataset.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/delegation-overview

I'd use Search instead of StartsWith

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WarrenBelz 153,034 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Kmayes,

Firstly, if field_3 is a Single Line of Text, then StartsWith is certainly Delegable, so that is not your issue. Also note that Search is not Delegable, so that will only compond the issue.

Also your sorted filter will display the newest records first, so the newest 500 will be there at the top. You can condense the code a bit like this if you want to use StartsWith - note that this code below is Delegable.

SortByColumns( Filter( '2nd Stage Reviews', Len(TextInput.Text) = 0 || StartsWith( field_3, TextInput.Text ) ), "Created", SortOrder.Descending )

However to your question - I assume you realise that StartsWith only shows field values starting with the text entered by the user (not fields with the text anywhere in them), so what type of queriesis it not working on and how many records are in your List ?

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Kmayes 792 on at

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Hi @WarrenBelz

Field_3 was a number column therefore I amended the formula slightly and it now seems to work after some testing, thanks for your response however

If(

IsBlank(TextInput.Text),

SortByColumns('2nd Stage Reviews', "Created", SortOrder.Descending),

SortByColumns(

Filter(

'2nd Stage Reviews',

field_3 = Value(TextInput.Text)

),

"Created",

SortOrder. Descending

)

)

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WarrenBelz 153,034 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Kmayes,

Good to see if working, but a bit hard to guess the solution based on your post . . .

You can also save a bit of code here
SortByColumns( Filter( '2nd Stage Reviews', Len(TextInput.Text) = 0 || field_3 = Value(TextInput.Text) ), "Created", SortOrder. Descending )

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