How to filter or sort a SharePoint gallery 3 ways on a button press

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Hi all,

I have an app with a gallery that shows data from a SharePoint list. Users submit a form on one page to request an approval, and their submission can either be "Pending", "Approved", or "Rejected" on our SharePoint site. My Gallery page currently displays all the items on that SharePoint site, but I want to be able to have users sort the Gallery and only see items for the status they have chosen. I will include some pictures below of what I have, I'm thinking that 3 buttons would be fine (each button filtering by one status) but I haven't been able to get any buttons to filter the gallery.

Any suggestions?

I've tried using a variable, but I'm not very experienced with them and unsure of what to try. I got this code error free:

UpdateContext({var1:Filter(Aurora_Engineering_Standard_Components, Text(Approval_Status) ="Pending")})

but I'm not sure if it'll help do what I want.

Thanks for any help!

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Hi @Aurora ,

You need to set a Variable on each button OnSelect (example)

UpdateContext({varFilter:"Pending"})

and the Items of your Gallery

Filter( Aurora_Engineering_Standard_Components, Approval_Status = varFilter )

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@WarrenBelz

I added buttons with the OnSelect properties set to your formula. Now that I've changed the Items property of my gallery, nothing is showing up. Not sure if I need to change one of the formulas, do you have any other suggestions?

Thank you for the help.

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@WarrenBelz
I'm not sure if it matters, but "Pending", "Approved", and "Rejected" are all choices from a SharePoint column, so I don't know if they are recognizable as text.

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@WarrenBelz

I set the formula to
Filter(Aurora_Engineering_Standard_Components_1,
Approval_Status.Value = varFilter
)

And it works now, thank you for the help!

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