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Connect Action Project to Dropdown in Form

Use and add a data source to the form dropdown field in order to display information from external systems

Overview

You will learn

  • How to use action project to retrieve data from data source and show in dropdown in form
Aviral Agarwal A Aviral Agarwal August 21, 2026
Created on April 7, 2023
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Prerequisites

Steps

Intro

In this tutorial, you will create a project using a template from the store and edit the trigger form to create a dropdown and populate it with the values from the action project.

Step 1 Import sample process as template

  1. From the SAP Build lobby, select the Store tab.

    Import Project
    Import Project

  2. On the Store page, search for Sales Order Management (MI01) and once it loads, click Create from Template.

    Import Project
    Import Project

  3. In the Project Name field, enter Sales Order Approvals Project.

    You can keep the default description or enter the description of your choice

    • Click Create.

    Import Project
    Import Project

  4. Open Lobby and you will see your project created.

  5. Click on the Sales Order Approvals Project to open it.

    Import Project
    Import Project

Step 2 Create a dropdown in order processing form
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Step 3 Add environment variable to access destination
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Step 4 Add action project to dropdown
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Steps
Step 1 of 4
1. Import sample process as template 2. Create a dropdown in order processing form 3. Add environment variable to access destination 4. Add action project to dropdown
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