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I have a PowerApps form where data source is a SharePoint List. On form I have a Name column (single line of text in a SharePoint list). For that Name column I want to search employee name in another SharePoint list (Employee List). The Employee list has more than 200 employees so I don't want to create a dropdown on form. Is there a way to create a lookup column that will search employee name in another list when a user type letters in name column in PowerApps.

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WarrenBelz 154,924 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

I am not sure exactly what you want to do with the output, but if you put this is a label, it will show matching employees as the user types in

LookUp( YourOtherList, StartsWith( Name, YourTextInput.Text ) ).Name

Also, Name is a bad title for a field - the last section of this blog of mine may be helpful to you.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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Hi @Anonymous,

Based on the issue that you mentioned, do you want to search key words about the employee name?

Could you please share a bit more about the scenario, do you have a form in your app?

I think a Combo Box could achieve your needs.

Replace the Text input control with the Combo Box.

Set the Items property as below:

Filter('Employee List'.'Employee Name',ComboBox7.SearchText in 'Employee Name')

Set the DefaultSelectedItems property as below:

[ThisItem.Name]

Note that 'Employee Name' is a column existing in 'Employee List'. The Name is a column existing in your current list.

Please make sure the "Allow searching" function is on.

Hope it could help.

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Qi

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Thank you @v-qiaqi-msft . It worked.

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Hi @v-qiaqi-msft! Trying to achieve this but get an error? Any directions?
Members is a single-select person column on another SP list. Main list is 'ListData2', the other 'ListData2Members'. Thank you! 🙂

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