document property array in text area

[Sundaram Sridharan]

I need to have the following in the text area

prop1 prop2

val1 dropdown menu

val2 dropdown

val3 dropdown

 

the values val1, val2 etc are coming from a column and likewise the dropdown entries are coming from anoter column. I don't know ahead of time how many entries I will have.

Initially I thought about creating a large number of single drop down menus for both items above - the user will use the first drop down to select val1, val2 etc and use the second dropdown to choose the second value that goes with it. The user may not use up all the entries I made - this looked silly - is there any other way to do this

[Fabian Duerr]

Are you creating the values fro your drop down manually

 

When you create a new drop down / doc property you can choose the option:

 

"Set property value through:" -> "Unique values in column"

 

Then pick your data table and column.

 

When your tables/columns refresh with new entries, then your drop down should also show the new items.