Reset the SearchBox component from Creator Kit?

[notj]

Is there a way to reset the SearchBox component from the Creator Kit? It's not a resettable control(using Reset(searchbox)). Is anyone able to reset this other than manually clearing out the text on the users side?

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[notj]

Anyone have any ideas?

[zerocool55]

Hi notj,

have you found any answer to the above?

Thank you,

[WebPortal]

@notjhave you found a solution yet?

Anyone?

[zerocool55]

No. I’m afraid there is no solution to this one. I’ve also posted in the GitHub of the creator kit team and no answer or feedback. Support for the whole kit is no adequate and  it is really disappointing 

[notj]

@zerocool55  @WebPortal , not only have I not found a solution but I found a bug that makes this searchbox painful to use. I have a gallery where the items property is set to Search(collection, SearchBox1.SearchText, "fieldname"). Everything works fine until you navigate to another page and then come back. The searchbox is empty, but the values of the gallery are still being filtered by the previous value. I've confirmed this by placing a label that is equal to the searchbox.searchtext. The actual component will show empty, but the value still exists and is shown in the label.

Avoid the creator kit components. They're just not safe.

[Terzsian]

I have found a simple workaround. I had the same problem as you: gallery on one screen with the search box and if I type in a string and navigate to an other screen without using the clear button on the search box, the search string "remains in the control" and the gallery is still filtered based on the old string. 

So what I did was I implemented an if statement in the SearchText property of the search box. My use case: If I navigate to a different screen using the Tablist, the SearchText is set to "".

SearchText: If(TabList.Selected.Action = "Navigate", "", "")

[rainersc1]

This component requires still a bit of development. What I have done...

- store the search text in a local variable in OnChange: UpdateContext({letSearchText: Self.SearchText});

- set the PlaceHolderText: Coalesce(letSearchText,"Search")

On return to page then search text is shown in box. Not ideal, but the user realizes that search text is set and it is reset by typing a new search text