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How to make the search functionality, of a combo box, find matches starting with a first letter match and not any match?

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Not sure if my question is worded correctly but I would like to get the combo box to search/filter matching the first letter I type with the first letter of the items in the combo box. For example, if I type "F", I want the combo box to be filtered to show 'Fish', 'Forks', 'Fountain' etc and not 'Fish', 'Forks', 'Fountain' plus 'Effort', 'Stuff', etc.. I just want the words that start with "F". Is there way to do this?

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I think you could achieve this using startswith

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/reference/function-startswith

Combine this with filter and it should give you what you need

Filter(data source, startswith(self.searchtext)) in the items property of your combo box

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Thanks. This works with a little tweak. I needed to add in the column name.

Filter(DataSource, StartsWith(ColumnName, Self.SearchText))

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