Suggestion: Interrelated custom drop down list attributes

[Carl Tanksley]

I am working with several customized lists. It would be useful if one drop-down list was dependent on the entries in
a parent list,  i.e. a list of towns within each county in the state. Is there a way to make the entries in a drop down
Dependent on the entries in a prior task?

[.dan.g.]

Hi Carl

It's not currently possible but it would be feasible by, say, using a special syntax in the 'Default data:' field (The 'Icon' type already does this to allow names to be assigned).

>> i.e. a list of towns within each county in the state

But the problem in your example is one of scalability. 

The US has 3142 counties spread over 51 states giving an average of 60+ counties per state. Even if each county only had 10 towns that's a default data list of 300+ lines. 

So to make this work we would really need a '.txt' import function and to make the dialog resizable or to provide a resizable popup dialog to make editing manageable.

Or would you be happy to add/edit all that text within the existing field? ;)

[Carl Tanksley]

Thanks for the quick response. I am not too worried about scaling up, I only have 21 counties and about 600 towns to input.

Any help on the syntax would be appreciated as I am a rookie ;)

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[.dan.g.]

>> Any help on the syntax would be appreciated as I am a rookie ;)

It hasn't been written yet! I'll consider it for 7.2.

On Wednesday, 20 July 2016 15:09:28 UTC+10, Carl Tanksley wrote:

Thanks for the quick response. I am not too worried about scaling up, I only have 21 counties and about 600 towns to input.

Any help on the syntax would be appreciated as I am a rookie ;)

Hi Carl

It's not currently possible but it would be feasible by, say, using a special syntax in the 'Default data:' field (The 'Icon' type already does this to allow names to be assigned).

>> i.e. a list of towns within each county in the state

But the problem in your example is one of scalability. 

The US has 3142 counties spread over 51 states giving an average of 60+ counties per state. Even if each county only had 10 towns that's a default data list of 300+ lines. 

So to make this work we would really need a '.txt' import function and to make the dialog resizable or to provide a resizable popup dialog to make editing manageable.

Or would you be happy to add/edit all that text within the existing field? ;)

On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 20:45:58 UTC+10, Carl Tanksley wrote:

I am working with several customized lists. It would be useful if one drop-down list was dependent on the entries in
a parent list,  i.e. a list of towns within each county in the state. Is there a way to make the entries in a drop down
Dependent on the entries in a prior task?

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[Carl Tanksley]

ok, I misunderstood. Thanks for getting back ti me.

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