Why is filtering so hard to do :( Some help?

Hi All,

quite new to Adalo and I am sometimes surprised that the simple things are so hard to do. My situation

Let’s say I have a product table with a many to many relation to a country table. On my screen I have a country selector that should filter my card list of products. I got it working with the dropdown item as you can then choose Other components → Dropdown → Selected country

But and here is where I am stuck, I need to show the country image and name so I am not able to use the dropdown menu. I created a simple list with a modal and when selected it will write the country name to a logged in user variable selectedCountry.

I tried everything to use that field as a filter, not possible, I then tried creating an input value that when the screen opens it adds the country name, not able to use that field.