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===Setting Up a Dynamic Parent-Child Dropdown List===
Custom lookups can be incorporated into dynamic dropdown lists using the parent and child relationship between data. After uploading a CSV for your custom data, you can set up a series of parent and child dropdown lists that can further filter user options based on previous selections.
====End Resultof Parent-Child Dropdown====
The available options within the child dropdown should now change depending on the selections made in the parent dropdown. In our example, changing the university in the parent dropdown will change the available courses we can select in the child dropdown.
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===Setting Up a Successive Dropdown Lists===
In the previous example, all the predefined options had to be hardcoded into to the custom field configuration settings. This could be a tedious an inefficient process if the custom data needs regular updates or new entries. The process can be simplified by importing multiple lookups. The following example will illustrate how to use successive dropdown lists and reference multiple custom lookups without having to hardcode predefined options.
=Settings Explained=