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Posted on by Australe

I'm learning PowerApps as I'm going along. Our company is in progress of onboarding to Office 365. I'm working on building out a Phone Directory that will pull from Office365Users connection.
On one of the screens I'd like to provide a list of various departments(buttons) on the left pane, and on the right pane a gallery showing the filtered users by Dept. I would like to have All show us the entire list of enabled accounts. (Please see attached screenshot)

I think I'm on the right track, I stuck how to have the filter search by the local variable I'm setting with UpdateContext. Thoughts?

Is it possible to have 1 button search 'IT' and 'Information Technology'?

Thank you in advance.

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HenriDesmet59 295 on at

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Hello @Australe

Yes what you can do is to add after the "Account enabled" Filter the filter for department :
IsBlank(_searchDept) || department = _searchDept

If the _searchDept is blank, then It will not filter on It. If not, It will filter on It.

Tell me if It's helps you 🙂

Henri

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RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@Australe

My suggestion to you is to get rid of all the individual buttons on the left and replace with a Gallery (let's call it galDepartments). Then add one button to the gallery.

Set the Items property of the Gallery to: ["All", "Administration", "IT", ..etc..]

Set the Text property of your label to: ThisItem.Value

Then set the Items property of your right gallery to:

Filter( Office365Users.SearchUserV2({top:500}).value, accountEnabled && ((galDepartments.Selected.Value = "All") || department = galDepartments.Selected.Value ) )

I hope this is helpful for you.

EDIT: Forgot the accountEnabled...it is corrected in the above formula.

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Australe 27 on at

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That's wonderful! Thank you for this assistance!!

Do you think it's possible to set two search terms on the UpdateContext?
For instance, IT and Information Technology on the same button?

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HenriDesmet59 295 on at

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Yes it's possible, I think you can replace the variable UpdateContext by a ClearCollect to create a collection.
Then in your filter you can write something like this :

IsEmpty(Col_Dep) || department in Col_Dep

And when you select the All button you just Clear() the collection.

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Australe 27 on at

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Thanks for your reply. I played around and was able to get it to work by setting 2 variables on the button
UpdateContext({_searchDept:"Information Technology", _searchDept2:"IT"})
And using this for the Gallery
Filter(Office365Users.SearchUser({top:500}), AccountEnabled = true, (IsBlank(_searchDept) || Department=_searchDept) || (IsBlank(_searchDept2) || Department=_searchDept2))

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