How to use the Drop down functionality to assign a specific value for multiple rows

[Julianus]

Hi All,

currently I am trying to implement a drop down functionality in my workflow in order for 

users to select a certain "category" for a specific row value.

Please see the attached screenshot for a visualisation of the idea.

So in the example the class is already provided in a standard report, but the user of the workflow needs to select the related category per class type himself. For the category I have a pre-defined number of options. I think that somehow these categories can be included in a drop down and somehow be assigned to a class with a drop down menu. 

Can someone help me explain how I can implement this?

kind regards,

[AngelosPachis]

Hi @Julianus ,

Do you mean something like this?

Cheers,

Angelos

[Julianus]

Hi Angelos,

Thanks for your reply.

I checked the workflow you attached. I actually want to assign the category myself with the drop down tool.

So, in the standard report, the category column is not included, but I want the user of the workflow select the appropriate

category for each class themselves for each class type.

Perhaps a drop down tool is not suitable than, but I am not sure about this.

[JagdeeshN]

Hi @Julianus ,

Please find attached a working example.

To set the Dropdown values yourself, you need to select the manual option. This would enable you to define name:value pairs.

Do let me know if this helps.

Best,

Jagdeesh Narayanan

[AngelosPachis · Accepted solution]

Hi @Julianus ,

Is this what you are after? To allow your user to define which category falls under which class with a drop-down?

[Julianus]

Hi Jagdeeshn,

thanks for your reply, but this is not exactly what I was looking for!

[Julianus]

Hi Angelos,

thank you very much! This is the dropdown I am looking for. 

My only challenge is now that the categories are a fixed range of possibilities, but the class column

can be much more dynamic. So the class can also be d, e, f. 

I can close this topic and ask perhaps this as a new question on the forum.

Thanks for the quick help!

[AngelosPachis]

@Julianus 

You would have to bring more dropdown tools in so you can have a single drop down tool for each one of your class unfortunately. I couldn't think of a dynamic way to do that, so you should know the number of classes a priori your workflow runs.

Hope that makes sense

Cheers,

Angelos

[cycyg]

Hey @Julianus 

Did you manage to solve the dynamic issue?