# Creating a 'plan' of items
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [August 14, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649 "2024-08-14T19:36:27Z")
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### Author:  [@rathbala](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rathbala)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649/1 "2024-08-14T19:36:27Z")
Hi all
I’m working on implementing a plan creation feature in my app where a user can select pre-defined items from a list and see them in their newly created plan. Here’s a detailed walkthrough of what I’m trying to achieve and what I’ve set up so far:
**Target flow…**
- A user is on the ‘Plans’ section and clicks ‘Create plan’
- They enter a plan name and select items from a pre-defined list of ‘Items’, which includes image thumbnails for each item (so can’t use a checklist)
- Upon clicking ‘create’, the ‘Plans’ table is updated with a new row that stores these Items for that plan
- The user then returns to the ‘Plans’ section to see the newly created plan listed
- When they click on the plan name, it displays the list of items they selected
**What I’ve done so far…**
- **Set up these tables** : ‘Items’, ‘Plans’, ‘Plans-Working’
- **Set up relations** : Linked via user ID (templated versions of the Row ID in the users column)
- **Actions** :
- In the ‘Plans’ section, the title bar action ‘Create plan’ sets column values in ‘Plans-Working’ (clearing values to prepare for new entries) and shows a new screen based on this table
- In the new screen, an inline list of ‘Items’ from the ‘Items’ table allows item selection, with a custom action where if the Item is clicked it sets a boolean column ‘Selected’ in the ‘Items’ table to true for that Item
- **Columns** :
- A ‘selectedItemId’ column in ‘Items’ uses an if/then/else condition to hold the item ID when ‘Selected’ is true
- A Joined List in ‘Items’ combines these selectedItemIds
- **And then I got stuck…**
I feel like I’m over-complicating the setup haha. I realised I didn’t know how to convert a Joined List into an inline list of Items later for the user to view as part of a Plan.
Is there a more straightforward way to create ‘plans’ from a pre-defined list of items, and to be able to view these plans afterwards?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649/2 "2024-08-15T00:00:46Z")
So a Plan can hold multiple items, right? Is there a reason why you don’t use a choice component to hold mutliple item IDs?
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### Author:  [@rathbala](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rathbala)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649/3 "2024-08-15T18:59:55Z")
Oh yes, that could work! The only issue is I’m not sure how I’d then display this list of items when the user chooses to review the plan? i.e. is there a way to show a joined list or equivalent as a list of items, as I’ve noticed that inline lists don’t work on a single row?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649/4 "2024-08-15T21:26:02Z")
Looks like you added a Split Text column to create an array. Using that array, you can create a relation to the relevant table. Then use the relation as the source of a collection.
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### Author:  [@rathbala](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rathbala)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649/5 "2024-08-18T08:00:29Z")
Great stuff, that works perfectly.
Thanks both! Very grateful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-a-plan-of-items/75649/6 "2024-08-25T08:00:45Z")
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