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I am working on a project to create a search engine for a list in SharePoint.

We have been asked to apply some filters to the search engine. I was able to apply those filters but I am no longer able to SortByColumn, so now the gallery view is no longer sorting when selecting the sort button.

This is how the function looks like right now:

If(
IsBlank(GenderDropDown.Selected.Result) // && IsBlank(SpecialtyDropDown.Selected.Result)
,Filter('Provider Preference Profile',
StartsWith('Provider Name',TextSearchBox1.Text) || EndsWith('Provider Name', TextSearchBox1.Text)
|| StartsWith(Specialty,TextSearchBox1.Text) || StartsWith(Type1,TextSearchBox1.Text)
|| EndsWith(Language,TextSearchBox1.Text) || StartsWith(Location,TextSearchBox1.Text)),
Filter('Provider Preference Profile',
StartsWith('Provider Name',TextSearchBox1.Text),Gender=GenderDropDown.Selected.Result,Specialty=SpecialtyDropDown.Selected.Result)
)

Is there anywhere in this function where I could apply a SortByColumn at? If so, where is the best place to apply it at?

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Your SortByColumns should be around the resultant set of records in this case.

I would not recommend using an If Statement in your formula as it doubles the work to keep the formula straight.

Please consider changing your Formula to the following:

SortByColumns( Filter('Provider Preference Profile', (IsBlank(GenderDropDown.Selected.Result) && ( StartsWith('Provider Name', TextSearchBox1.Text) || EndsWith('Provider Name', TextSearchBox1.Text) || StartsWith(Specialty,TextSearchBox1.Text) || StartsWith(Type1,TextSearchBox1.Text) || EndsWith(Language,TextSearchBox1.Text) || StartsWith(Location,TextSearchBox1.Text) ) || (!IsBlank(GenderDropdDown.Selected.Result) && StartsWith('Provider Name', TextSearchBox1.Text) && Gender=GenderDropDown.Selected.Result && Specialty=SpecialtyDropDown.Selected.Result) ) ), "columnName" )

Just replace "columnName" with the column you want to sort by.

I hope this is helpful for you.

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Thank you for your response and recommendation.

I changed my formula with the "columnName" as "Title" but now nothing in the gallery is displaying at all even with both of the dropdowns being empty.

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Are you using the same formula I provided - just changed the columnName to Title??

In your original, you had commented out the logic for the SpecialtyDropDrown...is that vital to what you are doing?

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Yes, just changed the columnName to Title.

That was just something I was experimenting with but I'm not currently applying it to my application right now.

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