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Filtering Lookup entries based on selection in header

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Hello community,

I'm pretty new in AL programming, so this might be pretty obvious to some of you.
I probably could find a solution just by having redundant data, but I want to find out what is possible in AL and have clean code. I've searched many forums, but couldn't find a fitting solution (or maybe it is really that complicated).

For the sake of better understanding I'll use a made up setup.

I have 3 (custom) tables:
1: /Bin/ (/Bin No./, Name, /Allowed Item Type/ [fruits, vegetables, sweets,...])
2: /Bin Item List/ (/Bin No./, /Custom Item No./, Amount/)
3: /Custom Item/ (/Custom Item No./, /Custom Item Type/ [fruits, vegetables, sweets,...])

I have 2 pages:
1: /Bin Header/, Document, linked to table 1
2: /Bin Item List/, List Part, linked to table 2 and Subpage of /Bin Header/.

I want the lookup for new items in the /Bin Item List/ to only contain those items with /Custom Item/./Custom Item Type/ = /Bin/./Allowed Item Type/. 

Is there a nice way to just add an additional filter without writing a new lookup page or something like that?

Thanks in advance and have a nice day
Christopher 
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    13 on at
    I'm not quite sure whether I understand your table design - but try setting a TableRelation on table 2, field Custom Item No.
     
     
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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    95,546 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Hi, hope the following helps.
    How to create a Lookup, Drop-Down, or Option list (Single and Multi select)
     
    Thanks.
    ZHU
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    112 on at
    @User:
    I'm not quite sure whether I understand your table design - but try setting a TableRelation on table 2, field Custom Item No.
    Thanks, I'm already using a table relation, but I'm looking for an easy way to add an additional filter that is depending on a variable or a return value of a function. As far as I've tried, none of the WHERE <TableFilters> - options FIELD, CONST or FILTER can handle this. 
     
     
    @YUN ZHU:
    How to create a Lookup, Drop-Down, or Option list (Single and Multi select)
    Thank you, that would solve the problem. It just seems to be so much effort (create a new page which still needs to call another function to get the filter value, create a new trigger...) for such a simple thing as adding a where statement. And there wouldn't be a table relation so this could cause problems in case of rename cascading, right?

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