Filter problem

[Warren_Gibbs]

I’m pretty new to Power Apps and have been looking at various sources to help with the syntax of a filter command I am using but have run out of ideas.

Here’s the background:

1. I am developing an Employee request application with data stored in SharePoint
2. My objective is to auto-populate a single line text field with the email address of a Legal Director in the main list used in SharePoint (‘Requisitions’)
• The criteria being we have one Legal Director for each of our Business Units in each Country we serve
3. In Power Apps
• Country [DataCardValue4].  The SharePoint List ‘Requisitions’ includes the values available for selection – which appear in the drop down control
• Business Unit [Dropdown1].  The values in the dropdown are retrieved from the list ‘Organization’:  Items:   Distinct(Choices(Organization.BU), Value)
4. My questions:
• My problem is with the syntax of the filter command in the Legal Director field (which returns no results and a delegation warning):

Filter(Approvals,Country = DataCardValue4.Selected.Value) And Filter(Approvals,'Business Unit' = Dropdown1.Selected.Result)

• This filter command is written on a dropdown control [Dropdown5].  I did this in order to specify the correct returned field (‘Legal Director’) in the right hand ‘Depends on’ field list

Any help would be really appreciated.  Thanks!

Requisitions:

Approvals

Organization:

[Drrickryp]

@Warren_Gibbs 

The problem is that country is a choice field.  Change it to single line of text and your formula should work.

[Warren_Gibbs]

Thanks @Drrickryp.   You mean getting users to type in the country name during data entry and not having the drop down?  If so, the impact of doing that (e.g. Power Automate flows that rely on the accuracy of the Country field value) would not be worth the auto-populated value for Legal Director.    

[Drrickryp]

@Warren_Gibbs 

You can either hard code the dropdown, use a second list of countries, or use Distinct(Approvals, Country) for the items in the dropdown if you already have all of them in your list.

[Warren_Gibbs]

I used; Distinct(Choices(Approvals.Country),Value) to produce the list in a new dropdown; Dropdown4

The filter has been updated, but still produces the same warning (with no data); 

Filter(Approvals,Country = Dropdown4.Selected.Result) And Filter(Approvals,'Business Unit' = Dropdown1.Selected.Result)

Do I need to change the Country and Business Unit fields in the Approvals list from Choice to Single-line text too?

[Drrickryp · Accepted solution]

@Warren_Gibbs 

I'm old school about database design and do not use compound fields at all, only single line of text, numbers and date/time.  The principle that each cell in a database must contain a single piece of data is one that works best for me.  Others disagree and there are workarounds but I haven't found the need for them in my apps.