PowerApps – enhance Combo Box search functionality

Even out of the box PowerApps is a great tool that provides lots of functionality. Way more than InfoPath could. However, most of the time with very few adjustments it is possible to achieve even more. A great example would be a Combo Box and its search ability. Let's create a SharePoint list with a Choice column and these values: It doesn't really have to be a Choice column, you might as well use a Lookup column. When a PowerApps form is created, the studio creates a Data Card and a Combo Box control associated with that Choice field. Let's see how the search in that Combo Box works and why it is limited in its current state. Note how it finds BK but doesn't find Black. The search has a StartsWith behavior. What if it is necessary to search for a word regardless of its position. Well, that's very easy…

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