Building a form with Categories and multiple sub-categories

Building a form with Categories and multiple sub-categories

Hello,

I am completely new to Zoho and the Deluge programming language. I would like to build an easy way to lookup a set of previous orders from my order tracking sheet.

What I have done so far is import my Excel order list into Zoho so it shows all the records (over 11,000 rows). This is everything I have ordered from my vendors over the last 20 years or so. Many of the records will have duplicate values with only things like the date I ordered it, the price, and a couple other variables being different. I have multiple columns in my original spreadsheet with the first being "Category" then multiple Sub-Categories in columns 2 through 9 being sub categories which are all dependent on the main Category and their parent sub-categories. When I go to the form that Zoho automatically creates, in the first dropdown for "Category", it lists all 11,000+ records in the Category column but there are only 20 distinct categories.

How can I get only the 20 distinct Categories to show up in my dropdown for "Category" and then show only the sub-categories relevant to the "Category" in my "Sub-Category" dropdown and then show only the sub-categories of my sub-category in my "Type" dropdown and so on?
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