Multivalue XML Forms field

Hello.
we will need multiple values in user dialogs, mostly KM File references. We dont now on beforehand how many there will be per entry.
And we want to do it with XML Forms.
From what I read so far, I cannot tell whether this is possible at all, so please post your suggestions.
regards
Carsten

Hi Carsten,
you cannot create a form with a dynamic number of input fields or something similar. Anyhow, you can offer for example 20 input possibilities within the edit form and only those fields filled in will be presented in the show form, when mapping the content to labels, for example.
Hope it helps
Detlev

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