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So I took a slightly different approach and thought I would share with you. I read through your documents and saw what you were doing. All fine, except personally, when I see repetitive formulas I start to consider maintainability of an App. The more places you have to go back to and change the same formula over and over, the more chances that you'll either waste a lot of time, or worse, forget one.
When I see an Items formula with multiple filter functions in it, it is one of those maintainability issues again - if you need to change what you return or filter on, you'll have to do it in every spot.
So, I'll share my suggestions for you if you have interest. The original formula I mention (except for the forgetting of the parenthesis) works fine. Here is some of this demonstrated to you in full detail.
First, the test app screen:
The screen with control names.
OnStart:
ClearCollect(colStatus, {Value:"Status All"}, Choices('Tool Design Support Requests'.'Request Status'))
icnRefresh.OnSelect:
Refresh('Tool Design Support Requests'); UpdateContext({locSortCol:Blank(), locSortDir:true})
ddStatus.Items:
colStatus
OnSelect of labels:
lblStatus: UpdateContext({locSortCol:"reqStatus"})
lblNeededBy: UpdateContext({locSortCol:"Needed By"})
lblRequestSummary: UpdateContext({locSortCol:"Request Summary Status"})
lblProjNum: UpdateContext({locSortCol:"Project Number"})
icnSortDirection:
Visible property:
!IsBlank(locSortCol)
OnSelect Action:
UpdateContext({locSortDir:!locSortDir})
Icon property:
If(locSortDir, Icon.ChevronUp, Icon.ChevronDown)
X property:
Switch(locSortCol,
"reqStatus", lblStatus.X + lblStatus.Width,
"Request Summary Title", lblRequestSummary.X + lblRequestSummary.Width,
"Project Number", lblProjNum.X + lblProjNum.Width,
"Needed By", lblNeededBy.X + lblNeededBy.Width
)
galHome Items property:
With({galItems:
AddColumns(
Filter('Tool Design Support Requests',
StartsWith('Request Summary Title', txtSearchBox.Text) &&
(ddStatus.Selected.Value = "Status All" || 'Request Status'.Value = ddStatus.Selected.Value)
),
"reqStatus", 'Request Status'.Value
)
},
DropColumns(
SortByColumns(galItems,
locSortCol,
If(locSortDir, Ascending, Descending)
),
"reqStatus"
)
)
And here it is in action:
I like that you are open to trying several different methods! It's a great way to learn more.
So, you mention sorting on person columns. So, picking up on the last post that I gave you. Here is how to achieve that. Again, this is picking up from the formulas and setup that I last posted.
These are the exact steps that I did to give that functionality.
Add a Label to the Header - called it lblProjManager
Text Property: "Project Manager"
OnSelect Action:
UpdateContext({locLastFirst:!locLastFirst});
UpdateContext({locSortCol:"projManager"})NOTE: I also thought it would be nice to sort by first or last name. So this adds a new variable to the screen called locLastFirst Selecting the Project Manager label will toggle that between last and first. (I did not go so far as to add any indicator of this to the screen other than what would be displayed in the results - First Last or Last, First
icnSortDirection - added the project manager to the formula:
Switch(locSortCol,
"reqStatus", lblStatus.X + lblStatus.Width,
"RequestSummaryTitle", lblRequestSum.X + lblRequestSum.Width,
"ProjectNumber", lblProjNum.X + lblProjNum.Width,
"NeededBy", lblNeededBy.X + lblNeededBy.Width,
"projManager", lblProjManager.X + lblProjManager.Width
)Noted changes: the last line in the switch statement.
Added a label to the gallery to display the Project Manager name. For the last and first functionality, I added this formula to the Text property of that label:
If(locLastFirst,
With({lclName:Split(ThisItem.ProjectManager.DisplayName, " ")},
Last(lclName).Result & ", " & First(lclName).Result
),
ThisItem.ProjectManager.DisplayName
)
For the galHome gallery Items Property:
With({galItems:
AddColumns(
Filter('Tool Design Support Requests',
StartsWith('Request Summary Title', txtSearchBox.Text) &&
(ddStatus.Selected.Value = "Status All" || 'Request Status'.Value = ddStatus.Selected.Value)
),
"reqStatus", 'Request Status'.Value,
"projManager", If(locLastFirst, With({lclName:Split(ProjectManager.DisplayName, " ")}, Last(lclName).Result & ", " & First(lclName).Result), ProjectManager.DisplayName)
)
},
DropColumns(
SortByColumns(galItems,
locSortCol,
If(locSortDir, Ascending, Descending)
),
"reqStatus", "projManager"
)
)Noted changes: a new column called "projManager" with the formula for the last and first logic. This is also referenced by the context variable locSortCol, which is set on the lblProjManager label OnSelect.
This column too is dropped so as to not impact any other screens or dependencies you have on the record structure of your Gallery.
Changed the icnRefresh OnSelect formula to the following just to reset the new variable:
Refresh('Tool Design Support Requests'); UpdateContext({locSortCol:Blank(), locSortDir:true, locLastFirst:false})
No other changes were made and here are the results:
I was going to add a drop down filter to demonstrate that as well, but I thought I would give this first.
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