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  • 1.  Nested Repeatable Drel

    Adopter
    Posted 03-14-2025 19:15

    Hey Everyone,

    I'm looking to make a custom excel form and i have a Repeatable section I need details for however it is nested in another creating multiple repeatable instances.

    I know for a single repeatable it would look like

    %a[Unique level1][0], %a[Unique level1][2], %a[Unique level1][3] for example but i need to pull the multiple levels from each instance into the columns.

    Would it look like this?

    %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[TBWaypoint][0] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[TreeSpecies][0] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[DiameterBreastHeight][0] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[DistanceTree][0]
    %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[TBWaypoint][1] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[TreeSpecies][1] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[DiameterBreastHeight][1] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[DistanceTree][1]
    %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[TBWaypoint][2] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[TreeSpecies][2] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[DiameterBreastHeight][2] %a[TimberPlots][0]%a[DistanceTree][2]
    %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[TBWaypoint][0] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[TreeSpecies][0] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[DiameterBreastHeight][0] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[DistanceTree][0]
    %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[TBWaypoint][1] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[TreeSpecies][1] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[DiameterBreastHeight][1] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[DistanceTree][1]
    %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[TBWaypoint][2] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[TreeSpecies][2] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[DiameterBreastHeight][2] %a[TimberPlots][1]%a[DistanceTree][2]

    Or do i need one more set of brackets? Or am I wrong completely.



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    Russell Kondro
    Wildlife and Fisheries Biologist
    Basin Environmental
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  • 2.  RE: Nested Repeatable Drel

    Staff
    Posted 03-17-2025 09:20

    Hi Russell!

    We have some documentation on nested repeatable sections here: https://docs.truecontext.com/1374411/Content/Published/217831408.html#:~:text=Reference%20Nested%20Repeatable%20Sections

    We'll be adding more examples to that topic, but I hope that helps get you started.

    Best regards,

    Karen



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    Karen Cann
    Technical Communications Manager
    TrueContext
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  • 3.  RE: Nested Repeatable Drel

    Adopter
    Posted 03-17-2025 12:07

    Hey Karen,

    I had taken a look at your documentation etc and thats why I was trying to check the validity of my coding as the documents don't seem to fit my coded answer needs.

    Thank you



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    Russell Kondro
    Wildlife and Fisheries Biologist
    Basin Environmental
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  • 4.  RE: Nested Repeatable Drel

    Posted 03-17-2025 13:04

    Hello Russell,

    I hope I can help you out a little more here, going to need to start with an example to make it easier to explain:

    So in this example, I have the Main Form with a Repeat called Repeat1 and a Nested repeat called Repeat2 (inside of Repeat 1)

    Main Form
    ---> Repeat1
    --->Repeat1_Q1
    ---------->Repeat2
    ---------->Repeat2_Q1

    Now If I wanted to target the first value of Repeat2_Q1 that is in the first row of Repeat1, it would look like this:
    %e[Repeat1][0][%e[Repeat2][0][%a[Repeat2_Q1]]]

    2nd row in Repeat2
    %e[Repeat1][0][%e[Repeat2][1][%a[Repeat2_Q1]]]

    Then moving into the 2nd row of Repeat1:
    %e[Repeat1][1][%e[Repeat2][0][%a[Repeat2_Q1]]]

    I hope that helps, and let me know if you need some assistance with your specific example! 



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    Ian Chamberlain
    Solutions Architect
    TrueContext
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  • 5.  RE: Nested Repeatable Drel

    Adopter
    Posted 03-17-2025 16:52

    Hey Ian,

    Thank you i think that helps, based off my above example then it should look like this?

    %e[TimberPlots][0][%e[TimberDetails][0]%a[TBWaypoint][0]] %e[TimberPlots][0][%e[TimberDetails][0]%a[TreeSpecies][0]]

    For clarification "TimberPlots"  is the heading for the first repeatable section and "TimberDetails" is the unique for the nested repeatable with "TBWaypoint" and "TreeSpecies" are two of the columns I want to fill.



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    Russell Kondro
    Wildlife and Fisheries Biologist
    Basin Environmental
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  • 6.  RE: Nested Repeatable Drel

    Posted 03-24-2025 10:18

    Close! 

     
    %e[TimberPlots][0][%e[TimberDetails][0][%a[TBWaypoint]]]

    %e[TimberPlots][0][%e[TimberDetails][0][%a[TreeSpecies]]]

    When you are using the %e reference, you don't need the [n] after the question label because as part of your %e statement, you are defining the row you want. So these examples should pull out the first values in those questions. 
    Thank you!


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    Ian Chamberlain
    Solutions Architect
    TrueContext
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