# Submission form where option A determines option B

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/submission-form-where-option-a-determines-option-b/83431>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [July 25, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/submission-form-where-option-a-determines-option-b/83431 "2025-07-25T07:00:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stewart\_Lawson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/stewart_lawson/32/90698_2.png) [@Stewart\_Lawson](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Stewart_Lawson)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/submission-form-where-option-a-determines-option-b/83431/1 "2025-07-25T07:00:33Z")

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Hello Everyone,

After a frustrating evening being sent in circles by Ai I was hoping a human may have a better understanding of what I hope to, but currently cannot, achieve.

I am looking to create a submission form for students to submit their extra curricular activities (they do this and get points and rewards).

There are 5 categories the students can submit under and each category has 5 sub areas. I wanted to create a form that when the students selected category A it would only show areas 1,2,3,4&5 and if they selected category B it would show only areas 6,7,8,9&10 etc.

My problem is I cannot seem to get them linked correctly. When I select category all of the options come up. I tried making a relations column in my tables that linked my categories to my area but no luck. Is there anyway I can make this work?

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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:** [July 25, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/submission-form-where-option-a-determines-option-b/83431/2 "2025-07-25T11:43:58Z")

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The canonical way to do this is to use [screen values](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/values/screen-values) to filter the second choice component. But then it depends how your data is laid out. Ideally you should have a list of Categories and Sub-Categories in a single table (one column for each), with one row per Category/Sub Category combination.