Trouble with Sort function

[LennartWalldén]

Hi,

I am working on a quite big app for Project management. One of our items is to defin which of the Global Goals we are supporting with the actual project. I have a Sharepoint field with the 17 goals listed like "01. No poverty"; "02. No hunger" etc. When the user picks the proper items I want to show the chosen values in a Gallery which sorts the values in ascending order from 01 to 17.

I have a dropdown Combobox with the goals in text, which is a Choices field from SP, and then I have the Items property in the Gallery set like this: Sort(Globala_mal_value.SelectedItems.Value;Ascending) and the result looks like in the attached pic.
The results are displayed in the order the User picked them.

How should I get them sorted?

Best,
Lennart

[iAm_ManCat]

Hi @LennartWalldén 

As this is from a SharePoint source, have you tried sorting by column - currently you are doing a sort, ascending on the SelectedItems, which are already sorted by their selected (I know, the logic for that makes no sense like why would you want it sorted by what they chose when its already that).

Could you try:

SortByColumns(Globala_mal_value.SelectedItems.Value; "ColumnName"; Ascending)

Let me know if that works for you,

Cheers,

Sancho

[LennartWalldén]

Thanks Sancho!

No, I am sorry, that didn't work either. I see what you mean, that it's already sorted, but I still can't figure out how to get it displayed the way I want.

Do you think I could collect the values into a Collection or similar and sort that collection, and then display the collection instead?

Do you know what that code would look like?

Regards,
Lennart

[LennartWalldén · Accepted solution]

Thanks again Sancho

You got me on the right track! I replaced the Table with the Field name from SP , and set the Coulmn Name to "Value"and now it works! 😀 The code looks like this: 

SortByColumns(FN_x0020_globala_x0020_m_x00e5_l.Value;"Value";Ascending)
(I know it's a weird Column name, but we created it some years ago before we started to use PowerApps.)

Again, thanx a lot!

Regards,

Lennart

[eka24]

@LennartWalldén 

I think @iAm_ManCat  deserve your Kudos for putting you on the right track as you said.

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[iAm_ManCat]

Hey @LennartWalldén 

Glad I could help you in the right direction - Thanks for coming back with the solution, really appreciate that as this will help others in future if they face similar issues 🙂

And haha, no worries about the column name, at my company we have so many SharePoint lists so there are loads of staff who used long names before SharePoint started removing spaces 🙂

Cheers,

Sancho