Sorting a gallery by multiple criteria, default based on first letter of a list field:

[bsamms]

The main page of my app has a gallery which lists cases, along with two text search boxes, one for searching the cases by the employee's last name, the second for searching the cases by the employee's ID number.  My current ITEMS script is:

SortByColumns(Filter([@CaseTracker_data], StartsWith('Employee Last Name', TextSearchBox1.Text), StartsWith('Employee ID', TextSearchBox2.Text)), "Title", If(SortDescending1, Descending, Ascending))

Both search inputs work perfectly, however I'm confused by the (default) result displayed when nothing is searched.  Anytime I attempt to change "Title" I break the script, but I need it to display in descending order all contents in the CaseNumber field of the CaseTracker_data list which start with the letter "A".  Any help would be appreciated.

[Anonymous]

@bsamms 

Try using OR between your two StartsWith's, ie

SortByColumns(
    Filter([@CaseTracker_data], 
        StartsWith('Employee Last Name', TextSearchBox1.Text) ||
        StartsWith('Employee ID', TextSearchBox2.Text)),
    "Title", If(SortDescending1, Descending, Ascending)
)

Note: you can also get away with only using one Search Text box if space is limited using the above formula structure. I use this a lot in my phone apps due to space constraints, I just add help info in the HintText property for the user.

[KrishnaV]

Hi,

I am able to succeed in your scenario by simply using the same query you are using for items for the gallery.

Please see the below output.

Let me know if that helps.

Regards,

Krishna

[KrishnaV]

Sorry I know the gif was not seen clear if u want I can provide you a series of images. The only change I did is I applied the formula on Items property.

Regards, 

Krishna

[bsamms]

@KrishnaV @Anonymous , thank you both for taking the time to assist here.  I may not have addressed my problem very well in the first post:  My search functions are working as needed, I need help understanding the result shown by default, when nothing is searched.

..."Title", If(SortDescending1, Descending, Ascending)) 

What is Title?  Assuming it is the Title field of the list, I attempted to change it to a more relevant result (CaseNumber) but get errors.  I need the default (non searchbox) result to show the data from the list's CaseNumber field which begins with the letter "A", in descending order.  Thank you.

[SarathMohan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try to use a check condition Is blank for the text box in that case by pass the filter conditions  and show all the data else add your code. That should work.

Sarath