2 dropdown boxes. Then user searches table to return matches. HELP

[Anonymous]

Hi all, 

I need to search this table to return a 'Name' result, 

I have 2 dropdowns: 

1.) User chooses category (NPI, Brand management etc)

2.) User chooses Yes or No

Then I would like to search to return all 'names' that the dropdowns satisfy.

Thanks for the help 🙂 

[SkiDK]

 Hey @Anonymous 

Filter(DATASCOURCE_TABLE, Category = DropDown1.Selected.Category && Choice = DropDown2.Selected.Choice).Name

This would be a standard formula to lookup record in a table with conditions. I named the column name of the first Dropdown 'Category' and the second 'Choice'.

I'm not sure what you mean with Yes or No, but I suppose it's a column as well?

[Anonymous]

Hi @SkiDK 

Thank you for the help 🙂

For example: The user will select a 'category' (GTM, brandbuilding etc) in dropdown1 (these are column names on my excel table) and also the user will select either 'yes' or 'no' from dropdown2. I then need to search the table returning names that match the search. 

Name	GTM	Brand Building	Brand Management	NPI
Chris	Yes	No	Yes	No
Adam	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Steve	Yes	No	No	No
John	No	No	Yes	Yes

[SkiDK · Accepted solution]

Oh, the formula is going to be a bit different because I thought that your different categories where in a column named 'Category'. Since you have different columns on each category, you'll have to filter differently.

You'll kind of want to do something like this, where you check on the column name which is selected in the first dropdown where the value matches that of the selected in the second dropdown.

Filter(DATASCOURCE_TABLE, DropDown1.Selected.Category = DropDown2.Selected.Choice).Name

 Although I'm not sure this will work for finding the correct column name, because the selected item might not be recognized as a valid parameter.

The difficult part is that on the categories you search, they actually are column names and not integral data on which to filter the data. If above code does not work, you'll have to find a way to get the columnname that matches the dropdown, on which you're then going to filter your data.