Creating a custom subcategory

[kim-lindgren]

I need to create a custom subcategory in a table I created myself. I know that you can set a dependent field for subcategory items, e.g. in the Incident table. But somehow, 'category' and 'subcategory' already seem to be linked on the incident table. I have a table with 'type' and 'subtype' fields and no matter how I set the dependent fields, nothing happens. This is not surprising because I probably have to tell the system somehow that the 'subtype' field as a whole is going to be dependent on 'type'. How do I do this? 

[SatyakiBose]

Hello @kim-lindgren 

Please do the following:

1. Open the dictionary entry of sub category field
2. Set the dependent as the category field.
3. Now go to the choices field
4. here in the label column, give the label of the subcategory and the value of the subcategory choice. in the Dependent value, give the value of the category field value (not the label). it should look like this:
   

   Your category and sub category field should work now.

[kim-lindgren]

Hi,

I think I have done all this. What I don't understand is point 2 - should I set the dependent somewhere else except for the choice fields?

In the choices field, I already set the dependent value to chart_point (I also tried to the label 'Chart point' just to be sure). This is in the 'subtype' field. It hasn't changed anything.

This is what the 'type' choices look like.