# Dynamic update on dropdown list in dashboard

**URL:** <https://forums.losant.com/t/dynamic-update-on-dropdown-list-in-dashboard/936>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 23, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dynamic-update-on-dropdown-list-in-dashboard/936 "2018-05-23T13:45:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sreyams\_Jain1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Sreyams\_Jain1](https://forums.losant.com/u/Sreyams_Jain1)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dynamic-update-on-dropdown-list-in-dashboard/936/1 "2018-05-23T13:45:49Z")

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I have a device with attribute colName, string type. Also, I have a dropdown list that needs to get pouplated with a series of values that get assigned to colName. How can this be done?

I am trying to button trigger a workflow to get the list of names which needs to get populated to the dropdown list (colName)

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**Author:** ![Dylan\_Schuster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.losant.com/dylan_schuster/32/2850_2.png) [@Dylan\_Schuster](https://forums.losant.com/u/Dylan_Schuster)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/dynamic-update-on-dropdown-list-in-dashboard/936/2 "2018-05-24T20:19:57Z")

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Assuming you’re talking about using an [Input Controls Block](https://docs.losant.com/dashboards/input-controls/), you can use a [dropdown selector](https://docs.losant.com/dashboards/input-controls/#dropdown-selectors) input and manually set the options for the dropdown to be the values that can be assigned to the device’s `colName` attribute.

Unfortunately there is no way to dynamically populate the options in the dropdown selector at this time; you can only dynamically choose which is the default selected option via a device query.

This is a feature request we’ve gotten a few times, so we’ll look into ways to autopopulate these inputs.