PL-900 Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Apps Practice Question
An app maker creates a canvas app that uses Microsoft Dataverse as the data source. The app includes a gallery that displays all accounts. The app maker wants to filter the gallery to show only accounts where the 'City' field equals 'Seattle'. Which formula should be used in the Items property of the gallery?
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Filter(Accounts, City = "Seattle")
The Filter function in Power Apps filters a table based on a condition, returning a subset of records that meet the condition. In this case, Filter(Accounts, City = "Seattle") will return all accounts where the City field equals "Seattle". Option A is incorrect because the parentheses syntax does not filter; it is not a valid Power Apps function. Option C is incorrect because the LookUp function returns a single record, not a filtered set. Option D is incorrect because the Search function searches for a string across one or more columns, not for an exact match on a specific field; it returns records containing the search term, not exact equality.
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Accounts(City = "Seattle")
Why it's wrong here
This syntax is invalid; City = "Seattle" is not a table reference.
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Filter(Accounts, City = "Seattle")
Why this is correct
Filter returns all records that satisfy the condition.
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LookUp(Accounts, City = "Seattle")
Why it's wrong here
LookUp returns a single record, not a filtered set.
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Search(Accounts, "Seattle", "City")
Why it's wrong here
Search searches for a substring; it does not filter by exact match.
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