Creates a pulldown (drop-down menu) based on records retrieved by other actions.
In preparation, the app you want to customize has a space field to place the pulldown and a field to store the pulldown values.
Create an app to define the contents of the pulldown and create a record.
In Customine customization settings, see Retrieve all records is used to retrieve records, such as get data from the app to define the content of the pulldown.
Next, place “Create a pull-down from a record” and set the space field that you prepared, and the field that stores the pull-down values.
Suppose you have a “Product Management App” to manage your products, and you want to define a product classification in another app and select the classification code in the “Product Management App”.
Set Data Storage Field, Space, Label, Record, Field to Display, Field to Value.
Select a field to store the contents of the selected pulldown.
The only field types that can be selected are String (single line).
Select the space in which you want to display pulldowns.
Sets the label to display in the pull-down.
Select the action that retrieved the record for the pulldown.
In the above example, the Retrieve all records, but you can use other methods of obtaining, for example, Retrieve records by key and so on.
Specifies which fields to display in the pull-down. This field is not the field in the app you are customizing, but the field in the source app of the retrieved record.
For example, if the source app consists of “X code” and “X name”, and you want to save the “X code” as data, but you want to display “X name” on the pulldown display, so you have to choose “X name”.
Select the field whose values you want to include in the Data Storage Field when you select it from the pull-down. This field is not the field in the app you are customizing, but the field in the source app of the retrieved record.
For example, if the source app consists of “X code” and “X name”, then “X name” is displayed on the pulldown display, but you want to save the “X code” in the “data storage field”, so you have to choose “X code".
When used on the record detail screen or record print screen, it does not drop down. The “Fields to Display” pulldown selected in the edit screen is displayed.
If you perform this action on the Edit Record screen or Add Record screen, the Data storage fields are no longer editable and cannot be entered directly. Enable a field, but you can use theIn this case, manual entry of “data storage fields” will not be reflected on the pull-down side.
Smartphone version is not supported.