# Displaying What User Selected in Dropdown

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [June 25, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730 "2025-06-25T12:44:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Derrick\_Low](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/derrick_low/32/83701_2.png) [@Derrick\_Low](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Derrick_Low)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730/1 "2025-06-25T12:44:01Z")

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i want the user to select multiple options from a dropdown and display what he has selected in this dropdown below this component, how can i go about doing this?

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730/2 "2025-06-25T12:46:29Z")

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Use something like a Text or Hint component, and configure it to use the same column as the target of the Choice component.

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**Author:** ![Derrick\_Low](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/derrick_low/32/83701_2.png) [@Derrick\_Low](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Derrick_Low)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730/3 "2025-06-25T15:13:37Z")

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what if my source is from the contacts table which display the list of contacts that can be selected from the dropdown and i am writing to another column in another table!

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730/4 "2025-06-25T16:15:37Z")

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The source of the choice component doesn’t matter here. What matters is where you are writing to.

Reread Darren’s response carefully and apply, it should work fine.

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**Author:** ![rayo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rayo/32/91372_2.png) [@rayo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rayo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730/5 "2025-06-25T17:19:17Z")

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I usually always have 2 choice components writing to the same column. One is a drop down and the other one has a chips style also writing to the same column and reading from the same source but filtering to only the selected ones.

something like the image below. When the user selects countries to filter. They can see it below and also remove any selections they don’t want.

 ![Screenshot 2025-06-25 at 8.18.34 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/2/b/2b95469ad4291e7ec82f3923ffb82b1b3d2588ad.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![rayo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/rayo/32/91372_2.png) [@rayo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/rayo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/displaying-what-user-selected-in-dropdown/82730/6 "2025-06-25T17:26:32Z")

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in the choice filter to show only the options included in the array of the first choice selections

 ![Screenshot 2025-06-25 at 8.25.09 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/c/d/cd0a11160631629662a207ae2661c456fbaf8cfa.png)