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====New Ability to Import Custom Lookup Tables====
Added ability to easily import large data sets for use as options within a select-type custom field. This can be used to provide large selection sets for your users, such as item inventory codes, code dictionaries, or geographic lookups. You can also easily setup dynamic sub-filtering conditions across multiple fields. For example, you could set up parent and child fields for selecting the country, university, faculty, and courses where the available options for each subsequent field is dependent upon the value of a previous field. This new functionality is advantageous since you don't need any of the data to exist as records in your system (as with the current '''Enable Dynamic Content''' option within a custom field) and it will be easier to update the options by importing them rather than editing large amounts of text in the custom field '''Edit''' screen. You can enable this new option called '''Use To import a dataset, go to Global Settings > Custom Lookup Options''' available . To configure, go to any custom field of the select-type custom fields of '''Select One – Dropdown''', '''Select One - Radio button''', and or '''Lookup - Autocomplete Options''', when they have enabled the and toggle on '''Enable Dynamic Content''' option. This should reveal a secondary toggle called '''Use Custom Lookup Options'''. The '''Custom Lookup Options''' were introduced as an alternative to using an API, custom script, or storing large amounts of data in the UTA level 1/2/3, as the data for the custom lookup options is stored in a separate table.
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