Gallery Formatting: User Names and Dates

[tagustin2020]

Hello, I am in the process of creating a gallery that has quite a few columns. To make space, I would like to shorten user names to last name, firstinitial. (e.g. Agustin, T.) and I would like to shorten dates to mm/dd/yyyy (e.g. 07/28/2020).

My current Text property formulas for the gallery labels are:

ThisItem.Requestor.DisplayName and ThisItem.Created

I've attached a screenshot of what the results currently are. As you know, when you are new to Power Apps you can spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out very simple things so I would be very grateful for your help. Once I get good at this, I hope to help others the way you are helping newbies such as myself. Thank you to all of you who pitch in on helping us out!

[mdevaney · Accepted solution]

@tagustin2020 

To format the dates do this:

Text(ThisItem.Created, "mm/dd/yyyy")

To shorten the name do this...

With(
    {UserName: Split(ThisItem.Requestor.DisplayName, " ")},
    First(UserName).Result & " " & Left(Last(UserName).Result,1)& "."
)

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[tagustin2020]

Hello Matt, Thank you for your help. The date formula worked like a charm, but I am getting error messages when I enter the username formula into the Text property. I tried both copy/pasting it and manually typing it in.  I have attached screenshots of the red squigglies in the formula and the specific error messages. Is there some other step I need to take to make it work? Kind regards, Teresa

[mdevaney]

@tagustin2020 
Silly me, I forgot the SPLIT function.  Please see my post above.  I changed it to the working code.

[tagustin2020]

That worked perfect. I marked it as a solution. Thank you Matt!