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How to bind api data to dropdown

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Hi Mendix Team, I created a form in mendix studio pro 10.3, In the form I have a dropdown but there is no option to direct bind the api data to dropdown. There is an option called Enumeration,But how to bind the api data to the enumeration.

asked 2023-10-10

vinay saladi

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Austin Aylworth · Answer 1 · 2023-10-10

Hey Vinay!

Mendix is a very powerful development platform, but it’s different from most other front-end only platforms, like Angular, in that you can’t directly map JSON to a given widget on a page. That page needs to be in the context of an object or objects.

I’d recommend calling the API prior to landing on the page, associating the response list to a helper object that will be the main context on the page, and creating a secondary association that you can then set on the page using a reference selector widget. This is a solution I’ve used in the past, and it’s worked well.

I hope this helps and makes sense,
Austin