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Data from SQL Datasource to Dropdown Box (Filter and Select column)

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Posted on by pedromoreno 6

If i have a Dropdown with the following items Fx: '[dbo].[tblTestes]'

It list the primary key (Code) in the dopdown.

 

tblTestes has the following columns:

Code

Name

Surname

Phone

 

How can i:

A - list the second column (Name) instead of the (Code) column

B - List the (name) column but filter all the results to a specific (Surname)

 

Thanks

 

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  • CarlosFigueira Profile Picture
    CarlosFigueira Microsoft Employee on at

    For the first part: open the Advanced view in the right-side pane, and under "Items", you can choose the value that will be displayed in the dropdown. By default it chose the code column, but you can change it to display what you want (in your case, 'Name'), as shown below.

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    For the secoond part: you can filter the data source using any column. For this example, I have a text input that the user can type to filter the data based on the surname. In the code below I used the Search function, but you can use the Filter function as well.

    If(
 IsBlank(TextInput1.Text),
 '[dbo].[tblTestes]',
 Search('[dbo].[tblTestes]', TextInput1.Text, "Surname"))

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