How to get CDT array fields based on specific column value

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Hello all,

I'm trying to create 2 dropdowns where the 1st dropdown will show the unique manufacturer brands from this table.

I managed to do it, but the 2nd dropdown is to get the motorcycle models based on the selected manufacturer. The catch is I need to only make a single query. What I did is I created a query rule then saved it to a local variable. On the 1st dropdown, I used union function to get the unique manufacturers from the local variable containing the query. However, I'm having a hard time on the 2nd dropdown.

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  • Hi Anwille,

    can you pls refer the below code.

    a!localVariables(
      local!selectedDepartment,
      local!selectedTitle,
      /*
        * Hardcoded values are stored here through the choose function. Typically    
        * this data would live with the department in a lookup value. In that case
        * local!selectedDepartment would act as a filter on that query to bring
        * back titles by department.
        */
      local!availableTitles:choose(
        if(isnull(local!selectedDepartment), 1, local!selectedDepartment),
        {"CEO","CFO","COO","Executive Assistant"},
        {"Director","Quality Engineer","Manager","Software Engineer"},
        {"Accountant","Manager","Director"},
        {"Coordinator","Director","Manager"},
        {"Consultant","Principal Consultant","Senior Consultant"},
        {"Account Executive","Director","Manager"}
      ),
      a!sectionLayout(
        label: "Example: Cascading Dropdowns",
        contents: {
          a!dropdownField(
            label: "Department",
            choiceLabels: { "Corporate", "Engineering", "Finance", "Human Resources", "Professional Services", "Sales" },
            choiceValues: { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 },
            placeholder: "-- Select a Department -- ",
            value: local!selectedDepartment,
            saveInto: {
              local!selectedDepartment,
              a!save(local!selectedTitle, null)
            }
          ),     
          a!dropdownField(
            label: "Title",
            choiceLabels: local!availableTitles,
            choiceValues: local!availableTitles,
            placeholder: "--- Select a Title ---",
            value: local!selectedTitle,
            saveInto: local!selectedTitle,
            disabled: isnull(local!selectedDepartment)
          )
        }
      )
    )
  • For what it's worth, this example is from the documentation page for cascading dropdowns. There's some more information on that page on how to implement it as well here: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/latest/recipe-configure-cascading-dropdowns.html 

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