Combo box question

Hi! I'm new to Adobe Acrobat pro, so forgive me if I ask dumm questions!
So I wanted to make a form with multiple comboboxes which are referring to each other, so that if you choose something from the first one, you can only choose from the subtypes of the chosen type......
Is it even possible?
I attached an exaple in Openoffice. It works with the database fields and hlookup function, but it would be the best to have it in pdf......
Thanks in advance

It's possible in Acrobat as well, but you will need to have some custom
scripts to do it.

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