Gallery question (lookup user, 'local' vs 'remote')

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I have the following scenario:

In my app I want to display a gallery with a selection of entities
The gallery must display (among other fields) the name of the user who created the item
The last item in the gallery must be in view

For sake of illustration, let's say I want to display 'Accounts'. So, I add a Gallery to a screen and set the Items to "SortByColumns( Accounts, "createdon" )", and I add a label that displays ""Account name: "&ThisItem.'Account Name'&" -- Created by:"&ThisItem.'Created By'.'Full Name'". This works as expected. Now I want to set the last item into view, so I try setting the Default item to 'Last(Gallery1.AllItems)'. But, this doesn't work.

Next attempt: I initialize a local variable 'loadedAccounts' as such: 'UpdateContext({ accounts: SortByColumns( Accounts, "createdon" ) })'. Then I set the gallery source to 'loadedAccounts', and the Default to 'Last(loadedAccounts)' (*: note: it might take an intermediary variable that you can Blank() first in order for this to work in all cases). In this case, after loading the accounts, the 'proper' element is scrolled into view, but the user name stays empty!

Illustrated side by side:

My first question: in the first scenario, is there any way to set the 'Default' item in such a way that it works?

My second question: in the second scenario, why does the 'default' way of retrieving the user name not work, and how can I work around it?

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Re: Gallery question (lookup user, 'local' vs 'remote')

So after more fiddling and research, I came to this conclusion:

Setting the gallery 'Items' to a CDS data source directly works.
Using some lookup value in the gallery template resolves as expected. E.g., "ThisItem.'Created By'.'Full Name'"
There is some magic involved though -- if you look at the Gallery.AllItems in the inspector, you will notice that the 'created by' column is empty.
If retrieving the data first into a collection ( ClearCollect ) or variable ( UpdateContext/Set ,as shown in example ), the inspector also shows that the 'created by' column is empty. In addition, the magic that happens in the other case is not present here
This is probably a bug, as referenced here and here?
In the end, I was forced to retrieve the data and use 'AddColumns' myself in order to fill the data properly (as referenced in the other thread). With the obvious drawback that modifying a record from that gallery becomes more complicated, too, again.
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Re: Gallery question (lookup user, 'local' vs 'remote')

@v-monli-msft wrote:
Hi @MrNappa ,

In the first scenario, the formula should be:

Last(SortByColumns( Accounts, "createdon" ,Descending))

Regards,
Mona
Thanks for the suggestion, Mona.

I tried this, but it doesn't work. Also, won't that do an additional load from the datasource? Which seems redundant, seeing the data is already present in the gallery.
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Re: Gallery question (lookup user, 'local' vs 'remote')

Hi @MrNappa ,

In the first scenario, the formula should be:

Last(SortByColumns( Accounts, "createdon" ,Descending))

Regards,

Mona