Title: Conditional dropdown
Last modified: January 19, 2022

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# Conditional dropdown

 *  Resolved [swaip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swaip/)
 * (@swaip)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-dropdown-2/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to create a backend form with PODS. I use ACT for three related tables:
   Brands, Categories, Products.
    Each product belongs to a certain category (eg.
   Printers) which belongs to a certain brand (eg. HP). Each brand has its own categories(
   eg. HP may have Printers and PCs, Apple may have Iphone and Ipad etc.)
 * 1) Shall I use a custom taxonomy for Brand + Categories ? This would result in
   a hierarchy of Brands + Categories, which is what I want, BUT :
 * 2 I also need to implement a conditional dropdown that let me select first the
   Brand, then updates the Categories dropdown to show only categories for that 
   particular Brand, and when I choose the category it updates the available products
   for that Category. Which way should I go? Shortcodes, API?
 * Any help would be appreciated,
    thanks for the PODS plugin!
 * Carlo Giordano

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 *  Plugin Author [Jory Hogeveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keraweb/)
 * (@keraweb)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-dropdown-2/#post-15315011)
 * Hi [@swaip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swaip/)
 * I would create separate taxonomies for brands and categories.
    However, the conditional
   dropdowns are a bit more complex and will require custom PHP/JS coding. Such 
   a feature isn’t supported by Pods at the moment.
 * Have you checked FacetWP?
 * Cheers, Jory

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 * [dropdown](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dropdown/)
 * [taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/taxonomy/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jory Hogeveen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keraweb/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-dropdown-2/#post-15315011)
 * Status: resolved