Filtered Table View "Stacking" Row Values

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Here’s a fun one with some honestly unexpected behavior:

GOAL:
To create a filtered Table view (“FilterTable”) using a Slice (“FilterSlice”) which uses the following row filter expression:

IN(TEXT([ProjectNumber]), SPLIT(INDEX(CurrentUser[UserPinnedProjects], 1), ","))

The “ProjectNumber” column is the key of the FilterSlice Table and the “UserPinnedProjects” column stores and EnumList of pinned ProjectNumber’s delimited by a “,”.

PROBLEM:
The resulting FilterTable will at first show all of the correct rows, but then seemingly “stack” them on top of one another. Let me demonstrate with some images.

PROCESS:
The workflow involves using a “PIN” action and “UNPIN” action to respectively append or remove ProjectNumber’s from a users pinned projects.

This image shows me “pinning” project #'s 000000, 150101, 150104, and 150107 in the “MainTable” view by clicking a the blank star resulting in a filled star showing that it’s pinned. So far, so good. I can even toggle the star to unpin it. The underlying data in the spreadsheet is simply “000000,150101,150104,150107” in the current users (ya boy) UserPinnedProjects column.

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When we switch over to FilterTable, everything also appears as hoped for:

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However, if you wait long enough, all of the filtered rows will just collapse into one row:

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Toggling the “Unpin” star will start to unravel the list item by item. By this I mean, unpinning “150101” here yields “150104” and so on until the list is depleted. For the life of me, I can’t seem to figure out what is causing this…regressive collapse? All the while, the responsible data looks fine. Nothing changes.

[Steve]

Instead of this:

SPLIT(INDEX(CurrentUser[UserPinnedProjects], 1), ",")

Try this:

SPLIT(("" & CurrentUser[UserPinnedProjects]), " , ")

Assuming the EnumList’s delimiter is the default space-comma-space.

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No dice, Steve; I get similar results. The reason I’m using just a “,” comma instead of " , " space-comma-space is because I noticed that my pinning action to append another number to the list of pinned projects destroys whatever delimiter there is and instead replaces the delimiter with “,”. So if I delimit with “:” for example “aa:ab:ac:ad” becomes “aa,ab,ac:ad” for reasons unknown to me.

For what it’s worth, the pinning fuction does something like this:

SELECT(CurrentUser[UserPinnedProjects], INDEX(CurrentUser[UserEmail], 1) = [UserEmail]) + LIST(TEXT([ProjectNumber])) - LIST("")

You’ll notice that I use the INDEX(CurrentUser[UserEmail], 1) construct just to pull info from the current users row. That’s all that is. I’m guessing the LIST() function is forcing any delimiter to “,” after adding the list.

[Steve]

Please post a screenshot of the configuration of the UserPinnedProjects column that includes everything down to and including the Type Details section.

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You got it!

[Steve · Accepted solution]

Your expression (reformatted):

(
  SELECT(
    CurrentUser[UserPinnedProjects],
    INDEX(CurrentUser[UserEmail], 1) = [UserEmail]
  )
  + LIST(TEXT([ProjectNumber]))
  - LIST("")
)

Try instead:

(
  SPLIT(("" & CurrentUser[UserPinnedProjects]), " , "),
  + LIST(TEXT([ProjectNumber]))
  - LIST("")
)

BTW, INDEX(CurrentUser[UserEmail], 1) = [UserEmail] shouldn’t be needed in that SELECT() if the CurrentUser slice is setup to include only the current user.

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Applied your suggestions on the pinning function and to the slice filter and it works like a charm. Thank you for all your fantastic help and guidance, Steve! Have a great weekend!