How to find combo box option?

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November 24, 2020
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Hello Experts,

I'm setting up a form and have a section for Units and Employees.

I would like to set up the form to "drop" the unit list and for a secondary list to show the employees associated with that unit. From this second list I am looking to multi-select employees and to only show the selected ones.

I'll be honest and say I have absolutely no idea how to set this up other than I can create the standard drop list and the employee list.

Many thanks

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try67

Community Expert

I don't know what you mean by "'drop' the unit list"... Do you mean automatically open the drop-down menu? If so, that's not possible. Also, having multiple selections in a drop-down field is not possible, either. You would need to use a list field for that.

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JGSaccAuthor

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Ok - I get that it's probably easier to see what I'm trying to do than explain, but because of GDPR, I can't.

I've set up a drop-down list for the units.

I have set up a list of employees.

I would like to select the unit and have a list which only displays the employees within that unit. I would then like to multi-select the employees I need from that list. I would like to have only the unit and the selected employees displayed on the form.

I've googled and seen various posts about a combo box that will use the drop-down list, show a secondary list and then a third list. I think it was to do with car parts in the example, however, it didn't mention where you find the combo box, or how you set that up.

ls_rbls

Community Expert

If this for a government form I think I can help a little bit with that.

I think you're asking about using dropdown menus with other dependent dropdown menus, by which a selection made in one parent dropdown menu will autopopulate another dropdown with a value (or an additional list of values based on a list that is hardcoded in the script).

I am currently using something similar in one of my PDFs.

For example, I select a product from the main dropdown menu and the unit of issue gets populated automatically in another dropdown, and the stock number for that same item is populated in another dropdown menu. Doing it like this with a good script doesn't require the user to manually open 3 dropdown menus and manually navigate or scroll through each of them, specially when there is a long list of items on each of the dropdown menus.

Is this is what you're asking?

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