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Text - Multiple Choice - input from another field sorting

  • February 29, 2024
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Is there a way to have your multiple choice text field sort in more ways than alphabetical or "Order shown here"? Or put another way, is there a way to select what "Order shown here" refers to?

I have a source table that is a list of active and inactive funding sources. I am using this as a global pick list for multiple tables in my app. I want it to display active funding sources first, with inactive below. i.e. sort active first and inactive second. Ideally it would also be alphbetical after the active/inactive sorting. I tried setting the default report to have the proper formatting, when you open the table it displays how I want it, but the field list in the other tables are either based on when the data was entered (order shown here) or just alphabetically.

It appears that "order shown here" is based on the row number.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.



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Ryan Williams
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MarkShnierYou
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  • February 29, 2024

... so the issue I believe is that you are sort of taking the expedient way out to use a table as a source for a multiple choice field.  You should ensure that the key field of that source table is set to the be the field which holds the text values of the choices, and then make a "proper relationshi"p where One source table record has many "other table" records.  When you make the relationship do not Quickbase make a new field  - instead select the drop down choice for your current multiple choice field.  The Multiple choice field will turn into the Reference field for the child side of the relationship.

Then you can make your perfect report to sort properly (you may need to add a sort field on the parent choices table, and this perfect report can also be filtered, as in other use cases you may want to only offer Active record as choices.

Then go back to your details records table and on the form where the choices field is, set the form to use your perfect report to drive the drop down list.



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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
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