Tutorial: Adding paired dropdown lists

You want to capture additional information about your desktop and laptop devices such as the storage type and disk capacity.

To make it easy for users to update the records, you decide to create a paired dropdown list.

Tutorial objective

When users add or update asset records, they can select the storage type and capacity from two dropdown lists. 

Scenario

In this scenario, you want to pair two fields:

• Storage type
• Storage capacity

The options for desktop and laptop storage are hard and solid-state drives and the options for storage capacity are one, two, and three TBs (terabytes).  

Before you start

You can use two fields that were already added or you can add the new fields. The data type of the fields must be set to short text and they must be dropdown lists. In this scenario, you add the two fields that you want to pair.

Learn more about the fields' attributes  

Adding the fields

Make it easy for users to select the right options. You can add hover help text for the fields on the Information tab. And, you can add text for each option on the dropdown tab when you activate Help text .

Select Add updates to History if the option that is selected needs to be tracked for auditing purposes or if you want to trigger workflows when the option that is selected changes. 

1. Click Configuration > Data Model.  
2. Click Add .
3. Type Storage type as the name.
4. Ensure Short text is selected as the data type.
5. Click Dropdown.
6. Click the Dropdown tab.
7. Click Add   and enter the two options
   1. HDD
   2. SSD
8. Click Create.  

Follow the same procedure to add the Disk capacity field. Before you click Create, complete these steps:

1. Click the Display Option tab.
2. Select Paired fields from the list.
3. Select Storage type as the paired field.
4. Click Create.

Result

When users add or update asset records, they can select the type of storage and the disk capacity.