Re: forms 4.5: newbie: dynamic list items

Check for built-ins populate_list and populate_group_from_query

H. John C. Hopkins wrote in message <6l72l1$hvv_at_no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>...
>Hello.
>
>I must be missing something. I have several list items in various blocks
>that need to draw from lookup tables on the server. I'd like to repopulate
>them on a "when-new-block-instance" trigger, so that the list elements &
>values always show the most recent updates to the lookup tables.
>
>Seems to me that you can't tie a list item to a query-based record group at
>design time (kinda frustrating, by the way). That's fine, but that means A
>LOT of repetitive code just to get these list items to repopulate, i.e.,
>having to do a populate_list call for each individual item.
>
>I thought I could set the value of the list item's Comments property to the
>name of the record group the list item draws from. In the
>when-new-block-instance trigger, I could loop through all the list items in
>a given block, repopulating them with the contents of a record group by
>simply drawing the record group name from the Comments property.
>
>Am I missing something here?
>
>Many thanks for help.
>
>-John C. Hopkins
>john_at_hpe.ufl.edu
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 05 1998 - 18:32:11 CEST