Select a single item from a choice of three that were picked from many.

[BurkeP]

We want our guests to ore-order menu choices by selecting one starter, main and desert from three choices in each category that have been picked from an extensive list of menu items.  I have a table with the menu items.  Another table has the meals with the date, venue and three offerings from the three categories.  Now, for each guest (all guests are in another table) I want to select a starter, main and desert from the three that are being offered by the venue.  From this information the venue will get a list of all guests and their menu choices and and each guest will receive  a confirmation of their selections.  So far I have the three choices in the meal table but can't figure out how to select one of each from the choices in each category for each guest.  I hope the attached diagram illustrates the issue.

[ScottWorld]

Create 3 single-select fields, one for each category: starter, main, dessert.

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[TheTimeSavingCo]

If I were you I'd set it up so that I had 3 tables:
1. Guests
2. Menu Items
3. Meal <> Guests

In "Menu Items", I'd create views to display menu items by their category (Starter, Main, Dessert), and in "Meal <> Guests" I'd create one linked field per item type to "Menu Items" so that selecting stuff was easy

This would result in something like the following, which should do what you're looking for!

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