Properties metadata with dependecies in XML Forms

Hello!
I've created two properties metadata with dependencies, like product and subproduct, so these two properties are related to each other.
I tried to add these properties to a XML Forms, but when I add the product, the list is empty, doesn't show any of the predefined values. What can it be ?
And how do I add these two properties related in the XML Forms ? Do I need to do any other configuration to the properties ??
Thanks
Luisa

Hi Luisa,
unfortunately, this feature is not supported by XMLForms --> sorry
Regards
--Matthias

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