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Hey all,

 

I'm building an app that will allow users to comment within a filtered Power BI dashboard - having filtered based on location and time period, they will add comments using an edit form, and be displayed a gallery of comments related to that selected period.

 

Pretty straight forward. Except seems I'm new to Power BI integration and my Googling skills are failing me.

 

I've got the gallery filtering on both time and location no problem. Next up is the actual edit form. I want to pull the selected filters into the app as hidden fields that are saved to the SharePoint list. Once that's done I've got everything set, I'm just not sure the formula required to write that pull. Seeing a lot of lookup but can't make it function.

 

basically I have 2 fields in Power BI I need - 'time' and 'location'. Here's what I attempted but I'm getting back that this is providing a record - which is not what I want. I need a string for these fields to save back to SharePoint for my filter command on the gallery.

 

LookUp('SharePoint List', Location = First(PowerBIIntegration.Data).'PBI Location')

 

Error is "Expected text value"

 

Any guidance?  Thx!

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  • RezaDorrani Profile Picture
    12,145 on at

    Hi @AndrewGeddes 

     

    Is Location a text column in sharepoint?

     

    PBI Location - check type of data being passed to powerapp

     

     

  • AndrewGeddes Profile Picture
    47 on at

    Hey Reza,

     

    This is single line of text columns in SharePoint - to enable the filter function on the gallery. I had them as choice but filter command doesn't cooperate with PBI integration and non-string fields.

     

    In PowerBi, these are numerical values or text values in the column. Numberical is 4 digits, text is a mix of 7 characters (numbers and letters)

     

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    RezaDorrani Profile Picture
    12,145 on at

    Hi @AndrewGeddes 

     

    LookUp('SharePoint List', Location = First(PowerBIIntegration.Data).'PBI Location')

     

    Location - text column in sp

    .'PBI Location' - text value coming from power bi

     

    add a label in your app and set its value to  First(PowerBIIntegration.Data).'PBI Location' - see the vlaue returned

     

    next hardcode the value and see if you get an error

    LookUp('SharePoint List', Location = "hardcoded value")

  • AndrewGeddes Profile Picture
    47 on at

    Think I've got it - syntax issue 

     

    LookUp('SharePoint List',Location=First(PowerBIIntegration.Data).'PowerBI Location').Location

  • RezaDorrani Profile Picture
    12,145 on at

    Hi @AndrewGeddes 

     

    glad it worked

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