What is the equivalent of set data structure or dropdown list in Glide?

Hello,

I’m designing an app and there are a lot of places where I want dropdown to be populated from a list of items. For example, list of sports or list of events. Basically, I’m looking for something that does the job of a set in data structure or a dropdown list in Sheets. The only way I can think of right now is to create different tables with single column and add the values. Then create another table with computed columns for all of the single column tables. This seems complicated, is there a simpler way?

You could configure a dedicated ‘Resource’ table. Store your choice component options in there without the need for multiple tables.

Thank you, @Eric_Penn. Yes, I can do that. With this, I’m trying to add a choice component where the source is this Resource table and I want to write to a column in a different table. However, the dropdown values are not getting populated. Any idea why? Attaching screenshot

Okay, I got it. I was trying to create a dropdown list from an array but it needs to be regular columns with text values. Working fine now, thanks again! :slight_smile:

3 Likes

On the right hand side you should select a value. This will be a column in your Resource table.

1 Like

Right, the ‘Values’ dropdown was disabled because I had used array type for the Resource columns. I changed it to regular text and added values as separate entries. It worked after that. Thanks again, @Eric_Penn

1 Like

This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.