Gallery, Views and Layout

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Hi all,

I'm creating a new view for my custom Entity in CDS. How actually use this new view ? as in my apps, I add a gallery and use my entity and also the view that I just created, but when Edit fields, nothing in there.

If checking the Layout, the "Edit fields" is more related to this Layout, so when I choose Layout "Blank", the edit field's Data setting is blank, if I choose Titles, there will be one field in Edit Fields, and so on.

I'm expecting the gallery will be listed as the fields I set in views, it looks not. So what is the "Views" selection in the gallery for, actually ?

My intention is actually to have the gallery shows like a Grid, like the tabular or list

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Re: Gallery, Views and Layout

Hi @Voltes

You can define a view by selecting an entity and creating a new view, say you want to add a filter and sort the entity on one of its fields. Alternatively, you could use one of the preselected views created when the entity is created. In the example below, I am only interested in Active Customers.

Then, when you are choosing the Items for your gallery, PowerApps will automatically add your filter to the Items according to the view selected. The data is then preselected for you and often this is a way to overcome the delegation limits imposed on the entity when using nondelegatable functions. It can make writing the formulas for some of the controls much simpler.

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Re: Gallery, Views and Layout

Hi,
I was hoping the gallery will show the columns exactly as what I set in my View, which I already select it in my Gallery.

Is there a way to achieve that? So obviously, the gallery will display as a grid list.

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Re: Gallery, Views and Layout

Hi @Voltes

That is not the way it works. If you want to see your data in a grid type view, use a Datatable control. You can mimic a datatable by arranging your fields horizontally and adding labels above the gallery. Mostly, the view property in Canvas Apps is used to prefilter and sort the data. That being said, in Model driven apps, the data is shown very much like you are describing.

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