# Form button component inside a form does't exist anymore in the components options

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-button-component-inside-a-form-doest-exist-anymore-in-the-components-options/9283>\
**Category:** Report a Bug\
**Created:** [May 17, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-button-component-inside-a-form-doest-exist-anymore-in-the-components-options/9283 "2020-05-17T07:02:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Liebeschutz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/dan_liebeschutz/32/3393_2.png) [@Dan\_Liebeschutz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Dan_Liebeschutz)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-button-component-inside-a-form-doest-exist-anymore-in-the-components-options/9283/1 "2020-05-17T07:02:40Z")

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My app’s URL: [https://puzzles.glideapp.io/](https://puzzles.glideapp.io/)

It seems that the form button component option disappeared inside a form:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/2X/6/60e1583b42b8b912a6a4860a9f1cdcea071e247d.png)

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Liebeschutz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/dan_liebeschutz/32/3393_2.png) [@Dan\_Liebeschutz](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Dan_Liebeschutz)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-button-component-inside-a-form-doest-exist-anymore-in-the-components-options/9283/2 "2020-05-17T15:44:30Z")

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Am I the only one who has this problem? 😕

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/form-button-component-inside-a-form-doest-exist-anymore-in-the-components-options/9283/3 "2020-05-17T16:00:07Z")

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Personally I’ve always thought it’s bad practice to put a form within a form. I think some users have ran into issues where they would lose all data entered on the first form when going to the second form. If you are trying to add an entry to a choice component that may be missing, I would recommend a text component and a choice component both pointing to the same column. This will allow you to manually fill something in if it doesn’t exist in the choice component. You can build your choice component from the submitted values or use a unique formula in a different sheet to build the list, although I think Glide may be performing a unique on choice values already. Not 100% on that one.

> [@Can this be done? Question about Adding](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-this-be-done-question-about-adding/2087/3):
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> I don’t know if this fits your exact situation but I have a sheet with a list of competitions for students. In another sheet, I use the UNIQUE function to build a list of unique competition names. I then use that unique list to populate a choice component in a form. The form is used to add a new competition for a student. In my example, I allow the user to either type in a new competition name, or select from a list of existing competitions. This gives a warning in the builder because I’m u…

> [@Text entry with suggestions choice](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-entry-with-suggestions-choice/2237):
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> A text entry with a dropdown menu for suggestions, based on a column, a bit like an hybrid between Text Entry and Choice components. For example when choosing a category for an expense, either by creating a new one or choosing from existing ones. I tried to make a form (Add layout actually) with two components, one text entry and one choice both redirecting to the same column, but I get a conflict warning. So I guess they both should be the same component.