Hi,
I have a dropdown menu that’s only supposed to show up sometimes.
Problem: When this dropdown is not appearing, it still fills out the value of that dropdown.
Here’s a screen recording problem from dropdown on Vimeo
@pford have you had a similar situation by any chance?
Yes it’s unfortunate that Adalo does not yet have a way to reset dropdowns back to empty automatically. One workaround is to add an identical relationship in the user’s record called “Dropdown Reset” and leave it as blank. Then when a user leaves the screen in any way, you can reset the dropdown to the Logged in User’s Dropdown Reset, which is permanently set to empty.
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Hiya, is this still the case? I’m currently trying to figure out a way to show ALL categories again once a user chooses another.
Yes this is still the case. The easiest solution is the one I detailed above. Let us know if you have issues or questions regarding that approach!
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Yes exactly. Just note that it’s the reciprocal field in the Users collection that will need to be reset.
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Thank you! I gave up on Adalo saying they are fixing it…
What is the identical relationship tied with? Any other DB element? I have many DB categories for dropdowns, does it work if I have one for all the dropdowns or I need to create one identical relationship for each dropdown that’s linked to each collection?
Yes exactly - you’ll need to do this for each type of relationship.
thank you so much @pford
Last one (hopefully): identical relationship = many-to-many ?
No problem. It should be whatever relationship type you are resetting in the users record.
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