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Joget Form Builder allows you to dynamically change the options/selections of a select box/radio button/radio based on multiple form fields value within the same form, In this use case, multiple form field values from another form will populate a spreadsheet.

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Dynamic Cascading Drop-Down List is also supported in List Filters too.

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How it works

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Figure 1: App Composer of Cascading Drop-Down Application

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Figure 2: Address form from the form builder

Each option in the spreadsheet is a list of data from another form with an option binder configuration. Below will show the steps of configuring each form and spreadsheet.

Configuring spreadsheet cascading drop-down list

Create multiple simple forms with a 'Name' text field with no Advance Options configuration to create an option data list for the spreadsheet.

In this example, we will create 'Climate' and 'Continent' forms with the same configuration.

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Figure 1: Configuring Form Data Options


Create a 'Country' Form with the same configuration as Figure 1 but with an addition of the 'Climate' and 'Continent' select boxes which will be using the Form Data Options Binder on the 'Continent' select box field to load data from the 'Continent' Form.

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Figure 2: Configure Form Data Options Binder

As shown in Figure 2, use the same configuration on the 'Climate' select box. As shown in figure 2 in the address form, Using Form Data Options Binder, the 'Continent' field will view the values from the Continent List that contains only one column "Name", and the Climate field will view the values from the Climate List that contains only one column "Name".


Create 'Address' Form with all the previous forms as a select box with 'Continent', 'Climate', and 'Country' with the same configuration in Figure 2. But with additional configuration for the 'Country' select box.

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Figure 3: Configure Country as Data Option Form

The Country field will view the values from the Country List under the Name column grouped based on the grouping by the other 2 columns "Continent ", and "Climate" .

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Figure 3: Spreadsheet form from the form builder

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Figure 4: Spreadsheet Configuration

In figure 4, it is important for 'Country', 'Continent' and 'Climate' formatted as 'address' which contains the dropdown format containing the equivalent data. For more information on Spreadsheet Properties.

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Figure 5: Climate List

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Figure 6: Continent List

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Figure 7: Country List

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Figure 8: Country Field Properties

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with the help of the 'use AJAX for Cascade Options?' checkbox.


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Figure 4Figure 9: Shows the multiple dependency fields of Country Field 

Warning

The Field Id ID to Control Available Options Based on Grouping the Grouping Field (figure 94)  must be in the same order as the order in the Grouping Column (figure 83).


Make sure to click on the Field Ids IDs rather than type them. You should only be typing the ';' symbol.

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Figure 10: Shows the saved spreadsheet data

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Figure 11: Country field is empty

The country field is empty as there is no Country in Asia where the Climate is Seasonal.

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Figure 12: Country field shows values depending on the Continent Field and the Climate Field 

More Examples

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Figure 13: Country field shows values depending on the Continent Field and the Climate Field (Europe + Tropical)

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Figure 14: Country field shows values depending on the Continent Field and the Climate Field (Europe + Seasonal )

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Figure 15: Country field shows values depending on the Continent Field and the Climate Field (North America+ Seasonal )

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Create a form with a Spreadsheet field and populate it with form option data from the 'Address' Form. It is important for 'Country', 'Continent', and 'Climate' to be formatted as 'address' which contains the dropdown format containing the equivalent data.

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NameDescription
Columns

The spreadsheet column(s) is defined here.

Sub-elementDescription
Field IDField ID of the column.
Label

Column header title/label.

Format Type

Columns 'Continent', 'Climate', and 'Country' will be using: 

Dropdown - appears as a dropdown menu to select options

Column 'Name':

Text - format the value as text or numbers.

Format

Key in the Form Def ID that contains the equivalent dropdown element, in this case - 'address'

For columns 'Continent', 'Climate', and 'Country'.

Figure 5: Spreadsheet configuration

Spreadsheet in App Run Time

The figure below is the example data of which Country will appear based on the Climate and Continent combination. 

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Figure 6: Example Form Data option


In the app run time, we can see the 'Country' column has options when the combination is Asia and Tropical and none for Asian and Seasonal. 

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Figure 7: Spreadsheet Form Data Options testingFigure 16: Country field is empty as there is no Country in North America where the Climate is Tropical.

Demo App

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