Grouped Table
Groups with headers, counts and an expand control, plus Expand all. Each open group is its own delegable query, so a large closed group costs nothing.
Best for: Lists people scan by state: what is open, waiting, done.
Two parts to paste. The Screen YAML and the App.Formulas. The formulas are the same for all ten patterns, so an app with several of them needs that block once. Without it the screen has no colours, sizes or sample rows — or download the .msapp to skip the paste.
Preview and code
Wireframe — screenshots coming soon
Group headers
Chevron, name, count, Expand or Collapse
Expand all
One toggle for every group
Per-group query
Only open groups load rows
Filters
Search, status and category apply inside groups
How it works
The 2 techniques that make this pattern work on a list big enough to matter.
Groups are the status table, not a GroupBy
GroupBy over a list does not delegate. The groups are the four statuses, and each open one runs its own Filter on StatusKey, which is indexed.
Flattened into one gallery
btnTgrLoad writes group headers and their rows into colTgrRows with a sort key, and the gallery shows that in order, so headers and rows share one scroll.
Connect to SharePoint
It ships on sample rows. The queries are already written the way SharePoint needs, so switching is a rename rather than a rewrite.
- Add your list as a data source.
- In
btnTgrLoad.OnSelect, replacecolTblItemswith your list (the Filter(colTblItems, ...) per open group). - Delete
nfSeedTblItems();from the screen’s OnVisible. - If your columns are named differently, rename them in the screen, or add matching columns to the list.
- Index these columns:
StatusKey,Title,ItemKey,CategoryKey.
Specific to this pattern
A count shows for open groups only: a count of a closed group would be an aggregate over the list, which does not delegate.
Each open group loads into a collection, so a single group is capped at the data row limit (up to 2,000). Use it where every group stays well under that; for one huge group, use the Paginated pattern instead.
The columns the patterns read
| Column | Type | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Text | The item's name; searched and sorted |
| ItemKey | Text | A unique reference, e.g. ITM-0042; searched, and the selection key |
| Owner | Text | Who the item belongs to |
| OwnerEmail | Text | The owner's email |
| StatusKey | Text | NotStarted, InProgress, OnHold or Completed |
| CategoryKey | Text | A key from nfTblCategories |
| PriorityKey | Text | High, Medium or Low |
| Amount | Number | A money value |
| DueDate | Date | When it is due; overdue rows turn red |
| Created | Date and time | Built in on a SharePoint list |
Rules that keep it working past 5,000 rows
- Every filter on a growing list must delegate: equality on an indexed column, StartsWith on text, and And or Or of those. in, Search() and <> do not delegate on SharePoint.
- An "All" choice must send no condition. Put the If outside the Filter and test the key with IsBlank, never with = "": a blank key compared with a column filters on blank and returns nothing.
- Sort with one literal SortByColumns per column. A column name held in a variable does not delegate.
- Index every column you filter or sort on before the list passes 5,000 items. Past that, SharePoint refuses an unindexed filter or sort outright.
- CountRows, Sum and Average do not delegate. Show rows loaded rather than a total, or keep totals in a list a scheduled flow maintains.
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