I have two or more dropdown component and I hope that these dropdown components can share one choice list.
For example
I have a list like {choice 1, choice 2, choice 3, choice 4,...}
In dropdown 1 the choice list should be {choice 1, choice 2, choice 3, choice 4,...}, when I choose choice 1 in this dropdown, the choice list of other dropdown should be {choice 2, choice 3, choice 4,...}, when I choose choice 2 in dropdown 2, the choice list of other dropdown (expect dropdown 1 and dropdown 2) should be {choice 3, choice 4,...}
Can appian do like this?
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Hello edwardc8281 ,
Yes, can be done in Appian. Could you please elaborate where you would be saving the selected values? Is this going to be a huge set of dropdowns or just a couple of dropdowns with this behavior.
a huge set of dropdowns, meayb 10 or more
a!localVariables( local!labels1: { "Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3", "Option 4", "Option 5", "Option 6", "Option 7", "Option 8", "Option 9", "Option 10", "Option 11", "Option 12" }, local!value1, local!labels2: remove( local!labels1, wherecontains(local!value1, local!labels1) ), local!value2, local!labels3: remove( local!labels2, wherecontains(local!value2, local!labels2) ), local!value3, { a!dropdownField( choiceLabels: local!labels1, choiceValues: local!labels1, label: "Dropdown", labelPosition: "ABOVE", placeholder: "--- Select a Value ---", value: local!value1, saveInto: { local!value1 }, searchDisplay: "AUTO", validations: {} ), a!dropdownField( choiceLabels: local!labels2, choiceValues: local!labels2, label: "Dropdown", labelPosition: "ABOVE", placeholder: "--- Select a Value ---", value: local!value2, saveInto: { local!value2 }, disabled: a!isNullOrEmpty(local!value1), searchDisplay: "AUTO", validations: {} ), a!dropdownField( choiceLabels: local!labels3, choiceValues: local!labels3, label: "Dropdown", labelPosition: "ABOVE", placeholder: "--- Select a Value ---", value: local!value3, saveInto: { local!value3 }, disabled: a!isNullOrEmpty(local!value2), searchDisplay: "AUTO", validations: {} ) } )
You might want to redo the code a little bit. This is an example of how you can handle.
Thanks Konduru, I have tried this way, but if I have a huge dropdowns, like I have 10 dropdown component, I should creat 10 labels and values, right? What I want is use a more common or easy way to imply my require.
I have also tried this way, but I failed.
a!localVariables( local!choiceLabels: { "Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3", "Option 4", "Option 5", "Option 6", "Option 7", "Option 8", "Option 9", "Option 10", "Option 11", "Option 12" }, local!choiceValues: { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 }, local!checkedValue: a!refreshVariable( value: { ri!q1Choice, ri!q2Choice }, refreshAlways: true ), local!uncheckedValue: a!refreshVariable( value: symmetricdifference(local!choiceValues, local!checkedValue), refreshAlways: true ), { a!dropdownField( choiceLabels: local!uncheckedValue, choiceValues: local!uncheckedValue, label: "Dropdown", labelPosition: "ABOVE", placeholder: "--- Select a Value ---", value: ri!q1Choice, saveInto: ri!q1Choice, searchDisplay: "AUTO", validations: {} ), a!dropdownField( choiceLabels: local!uncheckedValue, choiceValues: local!uncheckedValue, label: "Dropdown", labelPosition: "ABOVE", placeholder: "--- Select a Value ---", value: ri!q2Choice, saveInto: ri!q2Choice, searchDisplay: "AUTO", validations: {} ) } )
Create an expression rule to perform the logic and reuse based on the input value.