Display choice component even when there are no dropdown items

Hi,

I have a choice component and I’m filtering the dropdown values based on a previous selection. However, when there are no items to show in the dropdown, the dropdown is not visible at all? I want the dropdown to be shown but with maybe something like ‘No items’ or some other default to indicate it’s empty. Any way to achieve this?


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You could have a row in your choice table where the value is a space character or some other default. Then adjust your filter to always include that row in the list of choices. Only problem is that a user will still be able to select it as a valid choice.

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The alternative to this is doing it in a custom form. You’ll have real time access to the written data, and can calculate in advance if a choice component won’t have any values.

OR, point relevant entries to user profiles columns, and calculate based on those, in a normal form. Then submit those fields to the new row with special form values.

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Yeah, that might be a problem because I have a few other computations depending on the value of this dropdown. Suspect it’ll get complex..

Hi @ThinhDinh, I don’t think I understand how to do either of that. Could you point me to some videos or docs?