Populate attendees of a specific meeting

[Jezter12]

Hello,

This is one I am struggling with and I havent been able to find an answer for.

I am creating an App that facilitates a regular meeting, that triages specific requests and sends them down certain paths.

The app allows the raising of requests, the scheduling of them to appear at the board meeting and the production of the agenda based upon that scheduling. Actions then get created against that request. The app the allows the meeting output to be reviewed before they are are then submitted and the relevant sharepoint lists updated and emails sent out to all attendees with the decisions and actions. 

I have built all that functionality, but the one thing that is too clunky for my liking is the attendees. What I want to happen is that when the meeting screen is loaded I want it to find the specific meeting, which is named the same thing every month, and just populate attendees of that,. What happens at present is it pulls in the attendees of all the outlook meetings I have that day. and shows them in a gallery with a checkbox for someone to select whether they are in attendance.

The collection I pull the meeting data into has the subject line, so I'm guessing I could apply some kind of filter to it with the free text name of the meeting. But i'm a bit stuck and I'm not sure if there is a more elegant way to do it?

Any help would be appreciated.

[DEV_CM · Accepted solution]

I think you could use the Search function in Power Apps. 

Search(Table*, SearchString, Column1 [, *Column2*, ... ] )

Search(Meetings, "Daily Stand Up", Subject)

[Jezter12]

I'm sure there is some special disease I have where as soon as I have written the post on this forum the answer then reveals itself to me.  Your suggestion is what i did and it only went and worked. Sometimes I can think too much at something.

I can build and populate an agenda and capture things in a multi-tabbed form, build re-usable components but do a simple free text search on a collection was beyond my brain for the last week.

Thank you for confirming though.

[DEV_CM]

That's how it is sometimes! Glad I could help!