# Drop Down List Where Options Impact the Main Function Of The App
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146 "2024-01-18T15:06:45Z")
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### Author:  [@kochtgrw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kochtgrw)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/1 "2024-01-18T15:06:46Z")
Hi I need to create a drop-down list where when the user picks an option this option is stored and it impacts the function of the app. The user should be able to change that in the future if they need but it must remain the same when they restart the app
To give you a better idea let’s say that there are 5 options (a,b,c,d,e).
If the user picks “a” then on the main screen (other than the list screen) when the user clicks a button the app does “function a”, if they pick “b” then it does “function b” etc
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/2 "2024-01-18T22:21:22Z")
Hello @kochtgrw and welcome to the community 🎉
We had a similar topic a long time ago that you could check to take some ideas.
[[Solved] How to Create Drop down list - Questions about Thunkable - Community](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-to-create-drop-down-list/1234018)
What have you tried in your blocks so far for this? Is there any work you can share as a start?
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### Author:  [@kochtgrw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kochtgrw)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/3 "2024-01-22T15:29:50Z")
Thank you, I figure it out somehow however when I click an option I need the background color of this option only to change. Right now it changes the background of all the list options. How can I fix that?
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/4 "2024-01-31T15:02:54Z")
Hello @kochtgrw
Sorry for the late reply.
Here is the block that you need
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### Author:  [@kochtgrw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kochtgrw)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/5 "2024-02-02T13:57:13Z")
Thank you, however I don’t find this specific block with the “row id” The only blocks I find don’t include the part where it says (for “row id”). So where it is?
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/6 "2024-02-02T17:50:14Z")
Hello @kochtgrw
You can find the Data Viewer block here:
After you add the block you will see the row id
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### Author:  [@kochtgrw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kochtgrw)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/7 "2024-02-02T22:27:57Z")
I already have done that but this block doesn’t appear. Check the screenshots of all the blocks I used and the options of blocks that appear
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/8 "2024-02-05T12:22:57Z")
Hello @kochtgrw
Thank you for sharing more information.
To find the Data Viewer block you need to add first a Data Viewer component
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### Author:  [@kochtgrw](https://community.thunkable.com/u/kochtgrw)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/9 "2024-02-05T12:43:19Z")
I used the simple list component, so how do I do it with this?
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### Author:  [@gm.cellinig8f](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gm.cellinig8f)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/10 "2024-02-06T09:42:40Z")
Ciao.
This is an example of mine:
- when an item from “simple list” lstAtleti is clicked
- the item in the simple list selected (with index) is putted in the VARIABLE\_TARGET
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2024, 9:43am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/drop-down-list-where-options-impact-the-main-function-of-the-app/2790146/11 "2024-05-06T09:43:31Z")
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