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title: Using the Power Apps Search Function
description: Do you know how to use the Search function in Power Apps? In this post, learn how use it to run a query against a data source to pull only selective data.
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# [Using the Power Apps Search Function](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/using-the-power-apps-search-function)

 Written by [Brian Knight](https://pragmaticworks.com/blog/author/brian-knight) | Apr 24, 2020

**Do you know how to use the Search function in Power Apps?** In this video called The Power Apps Search Function, you’ll **learn how use the Search function to run a query against a data source to pull only selective data.**

There are two core ways to search a gallery inside of Power Apps, the filter function and the search function. Both have their advantages, but **the biggest advantage of the search function is being able to search multiple columns from a search box to filter down your gallery.**

In my video demo I’ll start by inserting a gallery that I’ve already created a connection to in my Salesforce system, and I’ll pull something simple like a list of titles and subtitles from a list of my users. **I’ll show you the steps in setting up using the search function, as well as discuss any drawbacks to using this function such as what does or does not get delegated.**

What gets delegated is dependent on the data source. [For a list of what gets delegated and what does not, click the link here to the Microsoft document.](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/delegation-overview#delegable-data-sources) There are quite a few things to watch out for with delegation, and I will talk about delegation in my video which you can watch below.

 

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