Filter combobox options

[Mattd56]

Hi everyone,

I have created a power apps to pull available overtime opportunities from a share point list. I am trying to filter the choices in a combobox. So the combobox is being populated by records from a column (OTname) in a share point list(OTlist). I want it to only display the otname records in the combobox where the value of another column (OTawarded) is “no”.  I have tried to use:

Filter([@OTlist].OTname, OTlist.OTawarded = “No”, Ascending));

for reference: otname is a single line of text, otawarded is a choice. I am receiving an incompatible types for comparison error. I have also tried “.value” after OTawarded however no value option came up in the auto fill so I just received another error.

I am rather new to power apps and I appreciate any help, please let me know if you need more details.

thanks,

matt

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mattd56 ,

Is this what you are trying to do?

Sort(
   Filter(
      OTlist, 
      OTawarded = “No”
   ).OTname, 
   Otname
)

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[notj]

Hi Matt, 

First step would be to remove the ".OTname" part from your filter. You want to filter the table OTlist, not a field in the table. 

Then, I would make a collection somewhere in the app before opening that combobox with your filter, and then set the items of the combobox to just be that collection.

An example would be putting this in your AppStart:

ClearCollect(CurrentOTOffers,Filter(OTlist,OTawarded="No"));

Then your combobox items value would just be CurrentOTOffers.

[Mattd56]

Thank you very much for your help, it got me where I needed to go. I didn’t realize it was actually the ascending/descending part that was causing the error.

-Matt

[WarrenBelz]

HI @Mattd56 ,

It was actually the fact you had left out Sort - Ascending is the default and is not required. You also need the filed required on the end of the filter.