Re: Forms 4.5 question regarding multi-block details

Dan Stern wrote:
>
> This is a little hard to explain without a screen shot, but here goes.
> I am trying to develop a screen with a customer and multiple addresses.
> The user have requested only one address be shown at a time and the
> address type (mailing, residential, work,...) be displayed as a list
> item. Here is the tricky part, none of these addresses are committed
> until the very end for reasons beyond my control. So, I need to be able
> to switch back and forth between records when the user changes the
> address type and if they hae not yet entered an address of the type,
> create a new address instance with that type.
>
> Anyone follow that?
>
> I have a few ugly ways of doing it, but being new to Forms, I thought
> someone might have an elegant solution.
>
> thanks
> dan
> dstern_at_ctp.com

Well, I'm not sure how elegant it is, but the most straight-forward approach I can think of is to put your address type list on a separate block from the multiple addresses. Then keep a hidden field on the block with the addresses indicating what type that address is. When they change type, search the addresses block for the correct address, and add it if not found.

Hope this helps...

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Robert Christenson
Gazette Technologies
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