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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hi guys,

 

I was wondering, is there any way to sort galleries, dropdowns etc... by numerical order? In an app that I am building, I have a list of "teams" basically. In my share point, they are listed like so : "Team n°: 1 - [Team Name]". I want to display all the teams in numerical order so Team n°1 first then 2,3,4.... Everything is good from 1 to 9 but when you get to ten, it does not work anymore.

It displays 1,10,11,12...19,2,21... you get the idea.

 

Is there a way around this?

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  • mdevaney Profile Picture
    mdevaney 29,991 Moderator on at

    @Anonymous 

    Your gallery displays in the order 1,10,11,12...19,2,21... because TeamNumber is a Text column.

     

    You could make a Gallery with Teams as the datasource and input the following code into the Items property to convert TeamNumber to a Number type value on the fly.

     

    Sort(NumberTest,Value(TeamNumber),Ascending)

     

    The problem with this formula is wrapping TeamNumber in the Value formula gives a delegation warning.  This will only work up to 500 lines in the Teams table.

     

    Therefore, the only real way to solve this is to change the TeamNumber column to a Number column rather than a Text column in your datasource.

     

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I know it is a text column so I made another column with jsut the numbers and I wanted to sort my text team column taking into account the number column it is related to but does not seems to work.

    SortByColumns(Distinct('Tableau de bord ST_1';'Lots concernés');"Result"). This is what I typed but I can only chose result at the end and not the number column

  • mdevaney Profile Picture
    mdevaney 29,991 Moderator on at
    @Anonymous
    The Distinct function always returns a single column called Result. That’s why you don’t see the other columns.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-distinct
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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    So I cannot do distinct and sort by another column ?

    The problem I have is I dont want do change the column type to number because then it wont display the team names just numbers, isnt it?

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    mdevaney 29,991 Moderator on at
    @Anonymous
    Correct. Distinct returns only one column. You have two options here.

    1. Add a new Number type column called TeamNumber and sort by it instead.

    2. Use the GroupBy function instead of Distinct. I can write out the full solution on a mobile phone but here’s a link to another forum post. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-PowerApps-Formerly/Distinct-with-multiple-columns/td-p/322204

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  • v-yutliu-msft Profile Picture
    v-yutliu-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous ,

    Do you want to sort a text type columns based on the number inside it?

    I suggest you try AddColumns function to shape tables( not affect the original data).

    Try this formula:

    SortByColumns(
     AddColumns(tablename,"number",Value(
     Substitute(
     Substitute(teams,"Team n°: 1 - [",""),
     "]","")
     )
     )
     ),"number")

    In the formula, I create a new field that only records the team number.

    And then, sort the new table based on the number field.

    Here's a doc about shaping table for your reference:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-table-shaping

    Here's a doc about formatting text(in this example is replacing "Team n°: 1 - [...]" with "") for your reference:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/functions/function-replace-substitute

     

     

    Best regards,

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I tried your strategies but it seems I cannot pull it off, it won't sort the way I want. So I just put away the number idea.

     

    Sorry for the inconvenience, thank you for the help anyways

  • Jefpoy Profile Picture
    Jefpoy 2 on at

    Hello,  

    First let me say that I am a "BRAND NEW" user to PowerApps so please be patient with me.   I have read through the comments and don't quiet understand all of the technical explanations given, so I have attached an image of what I need help on.  

    I have a PowerApp tied to a Sharepoint list.  My list is organized by an Activity number.  I want my PowerApp to sort the items by this number.  I have two questions:  First, Can this be done?, and Secondly can someone explain it in a way that a very new user can understand.  

    Thanks in advance for any help.Power app example.JPG

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    kgordish 193 on at

    I discovered this issue. I was trying to build a custom sort by using a calculated SharePoint column.

    Discovered sorting issue In Power Apps with 1, 10, sort problem when I really wanted. 1,2,3...9, 10, 11.

     

    Since I had only 15 categories, I switched to letters. Side-stepped this problem.

     

    =IF(SharePoint Column="Field","A",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","B",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","C",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","D",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","E",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","F",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","G",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","H",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","I",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","J",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","K",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","L",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","M",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","N",
    IF(SharePoint Column="Field","O"))))))))))))))

  • ferby2023 Profile Picture
    ferby2023 45 on at

    I was struggling to solve this and found your answer! Thank you so much!

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