You’ll have to use a snippet or maybe “hack” the xml.

Hi pat, How to use snippet and where can we write this snippet?

I would use Welcome to Skuid Docs — Skuid v15.1.6 Documentation and then add the snippet to the page.

Here’s a potential solution expanding on Pat’s response:

• Parse that text field and populate a ui-only model with the list of ids from that field


• Point your “Field from another model” model condition to that ui-only model to get the child records. Don’t forget to use “in”, not “equals to”, since you want to return the match for all records in the ui-model

Here’s XML showing how to use a snippet to convert a text field to records in an ui-only model:

<skuidpage unsavedchangeswarning="yes" personalizationmode="server" showsidebar="true" showheader="true">

 <models>

<model id="SourceModel" limit="20" query="true" createrowifnonefound="true" datasource="Ui-Only" processonclient="true">

 <fields>

 <field id="list_of_things" displaytype="TEXT" length="255" label="List of Things" defaultvaluetype="fieldvalue" defaultValue="pumpkin,cinnamon,cider,nutmeg,vanilla,apple,chai"/>

 </fields>

 <conditions/>

 <actions/>

</model>

<model id="UiModel" limit="20" query="true" createrowifnonefound="false" datasource="Ui-Only" processonclient="true">

 <fields>

 <field id="name" displaytype="TEXT" length="255" label="Name"/>

 </fields>

 <conditions/>

 <actions/>

</model>

</models>

 <components>

<basicfieldeditor showheader="true" showsavecancel="false" showerrorsinline="true" model="SourceModel" uniqueid="sk-2o1G-1548" mode="read">

 <columns>

 <column width="100%" uniqueid="sk-2o1G-1544">

 <sections>

 <section title="Section A" uniqueid="sk-2o1G-1545" collapsible="no">

 <fields>

 <field uniqueid="sk-2o32-1882" id="list_of_things"/>

 </fields>

 </section>

 </sections>

 </column>

 </columns>

</basicfieldeditor>

<wrapper uniqueid="sk-2o3P-2001">

 <components>

 <buttonset model="SourceModel" uniqueid="sk-2o3B-1906" position="center">

 <buttons>

 <button type="multi" label="Parse Text Field to Ui Model below" uniqueid="sk-2o3C-1911">

 <actions>

 <action type="custom" snippet="parseTextFieldToUiModel"/>

 </actions>

 </button>

 </buttons>

 <renderconditions logictype="and"/>

 </buttonset>

 </components>

 <styles>

 <styleitem type="background"/>

 <styleitem type="border" padding="bottom,top,">

 <styles>

 <styleitem property="padding-top" value="24px"/>

 <styleitem property="padding-bottom" value="24px"/>

 <styleitem property="box-sizing" value="border-box"/>

 </styles>

 </styleitem>

 <styleitem type="size"/>

 </styles>

</wrapper>

<skootable showconditions="true" showsavecancel="false" showerrorsinline="true" searchmethod="client" searchbox="true" showexportbuttons="false" hideheader="false" hidefooter="false" pagesize="10" alwaysresetpagination="false" createrecords="true" model="UiModel" buttonposition="" mode="edit" allowcolumnreordering="true" responsive="true" uniqueid="sk-2o0i-1376">

 <fields>

 <field id="name" uniqueid="fi-2o0i-1377"/>

 </fields>

 <rowactions>

 <action type="edit"/>

 <action type="delete"/>

 </rowactions>

 <massactions usefirstitemasdefault="true">

 <action type="massupdate"/>

 <action type="massdelete"/>

 </massactions>

 <views>

 <view type="standard"/>

 </views>

</skootable>

</components>

 <resources>

 <labels/>

 <javascript>

<jsitem location="inlinesnippet" name="parseTextFieldToUiModel" cachelocation="false" url="">var $ = skuid.$;

var list_of_things = skuid.model.getModel('SourceModel').getFirstRow().list_of_things.split(',');

var UiModel = skuid.model.getModel('UiModel');

list_of_things.forEach(function(thing) {

    UiModel.createRow({

 additionalConditions: d

 { field: 'name', value: thing}

 ], doAppend: true

 });

});</jsitem>

</javascript>

 <css/>

 <actionsequences uniqueid="sk-2n_z-599"/>

 </resources>

 <styles>

 <styleitem type="background" bgtype="none"/>

 </styles>

</skuidpage>