# Cascading dropdown

Dropdowns dynamically populated from the same worksheet can now act as an hierarchy and cascade automatically. When selecting a category from a dropdown in a form, the next dropdown for sub-categories will only show relevant values for the previous selected Category. **NOTE**: Do not use the cascaded sheet for displaying and filtering because that messes up the behavior, connect to a separate sheet.

Open the configuration of the extension to link to the sheet that holds the cascading information and choose the category.

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Your dropdown fill only be filled with relevant data based on the cascaded filter.

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