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Sadok_Hadji
Copper Contributor
Jun 01, 2020

SharePoint Online Lookup Dropdown Autocomplete/Combobox

Hi All,   I have a list in Sharepoint Online, which has a lookup to an other list. No matter what, on the form it will always render as a dropdown value. When this list of values becomes huge, it's...
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RobElliott
Silver Contributor
Jun 02, 2020

Sadok_Hadji I'd use Power Apps where you can have a text box where you start entering  a name and the gallery gets filtered as you type. That's what I did in my ISO Airports Database app which has many thousands of items in a SharePoint list; you start typing the name of the country and the gallery gets filtered automatically with airports in the country with those starting letters. In my app you can also start typing the name of an airprt and the same thing happens.

 

 

Rob
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  • FabioCartolano's avatar
    FabioCartolano
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 12, 2021
    Hi RobElliott, may I ask you some suggestions on how to realise a Power pp like yours? I'm quite new to Sharepoint and would like to make something similar, is there a tutorial maybe?
    Thanks,
    Fabio
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      RobElliott
      Silver Contributor
      Mar 12, 2021

      FabioCartolano the best way you can learn Power Apps is to follow the videos on YouTube by https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_OGRP8BYvtGB8eZdPG6Ng.  He's a really great teacher and very easy to understand. That's what I did - and still do! - and they've helped me to build some really good apps.

       

      Rob
      Los Gallardos
      Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

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