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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?

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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! 

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?

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

Hey Ian,

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

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.

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! 

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?

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