Occasionally you will see the option to work with Screen values in Glide. Screen values are useful when working with Forms or Inline Lists. Let's look at two examples.
In Forms
Take a look at using Screen Values to filter a Choice component using the inventory template.
This screen shows a user adding a new inspection. This is a Form screen.
In this app, there are many properties and each property has multiple units. When you pick a property, you only want to have to choose from a list of units within that property. You don't want to pick from a list of all units from all properties.
You can therefore add a Filter on the Choice component that says: "Only show units where the property ID matches the property ID selected in the current screen."
Filtering Collections
Another use case for using Screen Values is when you have collections.
When you have a collection, you have two contexts:
The row of the current screen
The rows of the collection
Without screen values, the collection doesn't know what screen it is being shown on. With screen values, you can use the containing screen's values in your conditions.
For example, showing a list of related items without showing the current item.
