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Posted on by Caelan

Hi,

Not sure if my title is misleading, unsure on terminology.

I have a power app where colleagues select a client name from a combo box, and the combo box selection filters a gallery.

I have an issue where, if a client has a middle name, the user gets a blank in the combo box when searching for the name. For example, 'Caelan T Gill' would not display if the user searched 'Caelan Gill'. I'm trying to find a way to have the dropdown options return names where the search text appears anywhere in the name, allowing for letters between the text. Effectively, I'm wanting to filter the items for each letter of the search individually.

Is there a way to do this?

I've been messing with splitting the search text, concatenating it back together again with """" "&" and filtering the items by that, but can't seem to get it to work.

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mmbr1606 14,605 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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hey @Caelan

you can try something like that:

Filter( YourDataSource, TextSearchBox1.Text = "" || Lower(Substitute(ThisItem.FullName, " ", "")) Contains Lower(Substitute(TextSearchBox1.Text, " ", "")) )

be aware that this is only a high level approach

Let me know if my answer helped solving your issue.

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WarrenBelz 153,034 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Caelan ,

Your example will never work as it needs to match the complete string you have entered with any part of the target field (Caelan Gill as a string is not in Caelan T Gill ). I had a bit of a play with Split and this seems to work in the Items. NOTE: as it is not Delegable, your list cannot be above your Data Row Limit. - I have used With() at the top to mask the warning, but also to convince the Combo Box to search.

With( { _Items: Split( Self.SearchText, " " ), _Data: YourSPList }, Ungroup( ForAll( _Items, Filter( _Data, Value in YourFieldName ) ), Value ) )

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