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New Power App builder here. I'm attempting to create a document approval app. In this I would like to have multiple galleries that only show documents that are in a stage or approval. I created a drop down list with the following choices in SharePoint:
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I would like one gallery to only show 'First Approval', then another for 'Second Approval', etc. When I attempted to create the filter, it failed:
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I created a dummy column that I inserted #s in to see if I had the write line of thought. This worked.

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However I need it to function on the drop down menu for functionality, as I don't want the users to have to type in the selection. I'm assuming that I am not utilizing the Filter function correctly with the drop down menu. If Search( is a better option, that is fine as well! I don't need the galleries to be selectable, but only show the documents that have a specific Approval status. The columns is called 'ApprovalStatus'. In SharePoint its actual name is: Approval_x0020_Status. I'm not sure if that would effect the line of code.

BONUS!: Can I sort the output by dates, oldest at the top, newest at the bottom. The column is the default 'Created'.

Thank you!

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rsaikrishna

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@A-IT

Filter('Power App Test','Approval Status'="First Approval")

Place double quotes before and after First Approval.

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Krishna Rachakonda

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I forgot to mention I tried this as well, but it still gives an error. I believe it may be due to the dropdown list?

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I was hoping this would be an easy solve 😕

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Alright, I figured it out!

In my case the code is: Filter('Power App Test','Approval Status'.Value="First Approval")
So, if you want to code a gallery to only display outputs based on a value (even from a dropdown menu):

Filter( 'List Name' , 'Column Name'.Value = "Filter")

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Would anyone be able to helpful in answering why discrepancies surface where the view may have 243 records and when the Filter expression is used for the gallery in powerapps, the gallery has a different total?

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