# How do i customize a dropdown interface

**URL:** <https://community.directus.com/t/how-do-i-customize-a-dropdown-interface/240>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** custom-extensions, extensions\
**Created:** [May 5, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/how-do-i-customize-a-dropdown-interface/240 "2025-05-05T09:06:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![vishnu.s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb8c5e/32.png) [@vishnu.s](https://community.directus.com/u/vishnu.s)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 9:06am UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/how-do-i-customize-a-dropdown-interface/240/1 "2025-05-05T09:06:33Z")

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How do i populate a dropdown with another collection without adding any relation

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**Author:** ![Nitwel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.directus.com/nitwel/32/38_2.png) [@Nitwel](https://community.directus.com/u/Nitwel)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.directus.com/t/how-do-i-customize-a-dropdown-interface/240/2 "2025-05-05T13:26:09Z")

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You can manually enter all the values from one collection as options into the dropdown.  
You could automate that process by creating a flow that runs each time there is a change to a given collection to update/generate these options or you could do it properly and just use relations as that is the whole point of linking to data across tables 😉