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Change colour of item if it appears in Collection and chosen by Dropdown box

Hi, 

I have a crude map which is basically 5 rows of square blocks, 19 across. (Some of these blocks represent desks, each desk having it’s own email address)

 

I have a couple things I wish to do, the first I think is straight-forward but the second is confusing me…

 

1. -

 

I wish to make some of the blocks Fill colour change when they are within a Collection (which is a collection of email addresses).

 

I have managed to get the below code to work for each block using it on the Visible property…

 

If(CountRows(Filter(CollectionName,Email = “Email@EmailAddress”)) > 0,true,false)

 

But I’d like to change this so it works on Fill colour property rather than Visible.

 

 

2. -

 

I’d then like to have a dropdown box which shows you the maps of the different floors, each floor with a differing set of block colours. (i.e. on Floor 2 there might be 10 desks on that floor, but only 5 are a different colour, as they appear within the Collection)

 

 

My guessing would be that I need to create another list which has what floor the desks (or rather the email addresses) are on, and thus if a desk/email address appears in a Collection AND the Floor chosen by the Dropdown box it would change the blocks Fill colour.

 

 

Maybe I’m going about this the wrong way as I’m a bit stumped on hows best to approach this.

 

Hopefully this all makes sense! Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Rob

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KvB1
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi, 

 

For 1, the code you have would work if you change it slightly

If(!IsBlank(LookUp(CollectionName,Email = “Email@EmailAddress”)) > 0,RGBA(0; 0; 0; 0),RGBA(0; 0; 0; 0))
(You'd obviously have to change the colours to your preference.

 

Your idea for 2. is solid, you add another column keeping track of the floor, and add an And to the colour formula for the correct floor

Thanks for the reply but I can't seem to get that code to work on the Fill property or the Visible property though unfortunately.

 

Cheers,

Rob

KvB1
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Oops I forgot to delete a bit from the original you made that i copy pasted

 

If(!IsBlank(LookUp(CollectionName,Email = “Email@EmailAddress”)),RGBA(0; 0; 0; 0),RGBA(0; 0; 0; 0))

 

It obviously wont work on the visible property, it needs a boolean variable as input. Fill needs a RGBA or a 'Red' or 'Green' or something thats preprogrammed in powerapps.

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious here but I can't seem to get this code to work. 

 

I've tried putting it into the Fill property of one of the blocks, should I be putting it somewhere else?

 

Thanks,

Rob

KvB1
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

What happens when you use it? Do you get an error message, or how is it not doing what you want?

I'm putting the code on the Fill property of the block and getting a red line under the equals sign all the way until the end.

I've double checked and the collection name email addresses are correct.

 

Thanks

hi @RobChilds , @KvB1 is spot on but if you up to another approach please review the following.

 

Add two columns to your collection: ne to determine the color ("_colour") and one to add the floor ("Floor") - you may wish to join another collection if the floors are already available. this is just to share a concept.

I am creating 50 entries and slicing it into 5 rows. i then add two columns and add some logic to it.

ClearCollect(
    colSomeData,
    AddColumns(
        ForAll(Sequence(50,1),{item: Value}), //your datasource goes here
        "_Colour", //lets get an indicator for colour 1 = white, 0 = limegreen
        If(item in colGrid,0,1),
        "Floor", //title of the column to keep your floors
        Switch(  //logic for your floors (i filtered the value by 10 to get 5 floors)
            true,
            ThisRecord.item < 11,"Floor 1",
            And(ThisRecord.item >= 11,ThisRecord.item < 21),"Floor 2",
            And(ThisRecord.item >= 21,ThisRecord.item < 31),"Floor 3",
            And(ThisRecord.item >= 31,ThisRecord.item < 41),"Floor 4",
            "Floor 5"
        )
    )
)

  

Now that the collection is sorted, add a gallery and set the item to "yourCollection"I have wrapped the gallery to get the grid effect you have (just 10 instead on 19)

 

I added another collection where i added a few numbers which represents the email collection

ClearCollect(colGrid,1,2,3,4,19,27,43,49)

 in the above collection you can see if the number is found in this collection it sets the color indicator to either 0 or 1.

 

In the gallery add a label which will hold the text which you wish to evaluate in your case email in my case a number which appears in colGrid. Set the fill property of the label to

If(ThisItem._Colour = 0,LimeGreen, RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0))

 

the result is (all the numbers in colGrid have  a green background)

rubin_boer_0-1627056189074.png

 

Now add a dropdown and set its item to your collection, distinctly to floor

Distinct(colSomeData,Floor)

the dropdown area cannot change background so i am adding another gallery to display the floor.

add the item you wish to the gallery in a label.

set the Templatefill of the gallery to

If(ThisItem._Colour = 0, LimeGreen, RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0))

 

set the gallery Item to

SortByColumns(Filter(colSomeData, Floor = Dropdown1.SelectedText.Result),"_Colour","Value")

the dropdown being yours of course. i am sorting the colours to follow each other then the number.

 

this is what you get

Floor 5

rubin_boer_1-1627056493232.png

 

floor 1

rubin_boer_2-1627056535164.png

 

Floor 4 

rubin_boer_3-1627056566419.png

 

 

hope this give some ideas.

 

 

 

hey there if you liked the post give it a thumbs up, and if it solved your question please accept it as a solution.

Thanks very much for your thorough response.

 

I'm very much a novice so this will take me some time to go through but I shall give it a go and let you know how I get on.

 

Thanks again,

Rob

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