Dependent Dropdown Question

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Hi Ya’ll

I’m a non-dev generalist and my background is in tech docs and I’m building my first app.

It’s a four-level selector tool to provide decision support for healthcare workers.

I have a google sheets tool that I built with some simple dropdowns and formulas. I’m a total hack, but it works fine. Now I want to create a mobile app that I can show SMEs, get feedback, and quickly update on my own.

  • All data is in one google sheet table
  • App content will be read-only
  • Initial selection has 9 unique values that will not change
  • Using valid-if on the other 3 selections

For now, I just want to get one view working:

  1. Select four criteria
  2. Display the result as details of that row/record on the screen

I’ve watched the Dependent Dropdown video and poked around in the sample app. The issue I have is in order to display the dropdowns, I need to “add”.

How do I get the all four dropdowns to just display on the screen?

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rickmcdata:

The issue I have is in order to display the dropdowns, I need to “add”.

I’m guessing the problem you’re having is that the dropdowns are all programmed into your sheet - but they’re not automagically working in your app… yes?

You’ll need to “Add” the options for your dropdowns into your Enum columns by either:

  1. adding the options direction into the Enum options (hard-coding them in other words); or
  2. creating a valid if/suggested values formula that pulls the values from another table or from a formula or something.

Bottom line, you’ve got to provide options to the system (AppSheet that is) in order for there to be anything for the system to use.

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Thanks for the reply!

MultiTech_Visions:

’m guessing the problem you’re having is that the dropdowns are all programmed into your sheet - but they’re not automagically working in your app… yes?

The sheet I am using as source for my app in Appsheet is data only. No formulas.

MultiTech_Visions:

  1. adding the options direction into the Enum options (hard-coding them in other words)

Yeah, I’m going to hardcode enums now and figure out the formulas down the line.

I was hoping to find a read-only product selector in the sample apps, but haven’t found one. I’ll just build the product selector sample app myself when I get this figured out. Appsheet seems like a great solution.

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