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Hi, I have built an action tracker in PowerApps. The backend is a SP list. I have a gallery which filters all of the "in progress" or "not started" actions. I also have a "Category" column with three different categories choose from. I have created a drop down which allows the user to select from one of the three categories. This is the code from my dropdown:

Sort(
Distinct(
[@'101 HR Action Tracker'],
CategoryDuplicate
),
Value,
SortOrder.Ascending
)

The drop down itself is working. The issue I am having is getting the gallery to respond to the drop down selection that is made. This is the code I currently have in place :

Filter([@'101 HR Action Tracker'],Progress.Value="Not Started"||Progress.Value="In Progress") , Or(IsBlank(Dropdown1.Selected),
CategoryDuplicate = Dropdown1.Selected.Value))

Please let me know your thoughts on what I should change. Thanks!

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Sundeep_Malik 6,484 on at

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Hey @kat7777777

You can modify your Gallery items property expression to something similar like below:

Filter(
[@'101 HR Action Tracker'],
(Progress.Value = "Not Started" || Progress.Value = "In Progress") && (IsBlank(Dropdown1.Selected) || CategoryDuplicate = Dropdown1.Selected.Value)
)

I hope this helps 🙂

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MarkRahn 1,231 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @kat7777777 ,
For your Galley, you could try this for your Items property:

If( IsBlank(Dropdown1.Selected.Value), Filter( [@'101 HR Action Tracker'], (Progress.Value = "In Progress" || Progress.Value="Not Started") ), Filter( [@'101 HR Action Tracker'], (Progress.Value = "Not Started" || Progress.Value = "In Progress") && CategoryDuplicate.Value = Dropdown1.Selected.Value ) )

When nothing is selected for Dropdown1, the IF THEN would use the first Filter.

I also used a technique from @mdevaney to add a blank value using the following for the Items property of the dropdown:

Ungroup( Table( {myMenuOptions: Table({Value: Blank()})}, {myMenuOptions: Choices([@'101 HR Action Tracker'].CategoryDuplicate)} ), "myMenuOptions" )

I set it to pull the choices from the Site Column definition instead of from the Distinct values in the column from the list data.

See this link for a reference:
https://www.matthewdevaney.com/how-to-add-a-blank-value-to-a-dropdown-list-in-power-apps/

-Mark
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kat7777777 106 on at

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Thank you!!!

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