Re: Designer 2000 question

jdob_at_ping.at (Jacek Dobosz) wrote:
>
> jcd_at_rhh.dk (jcd) wrote:
>
> >
> >Damn - I'm getting old and careless here - I forgot the most important thing:
> >
> >It's true that Designer/2000 could display a database field as a GUI item
> >*if* the field belonged to at domain with a fixed number of values (or if there
> >was a fixed number of allowable values for the field).
> >
> >However in the case I was referring to this was not the case (we did not want
> >to limit the allowable values at compile-time but only at run-time, since we
> >are dealing with a fairly dynamic system).
> >
>
> There is another solution to avoid hard coded values in GUI items
> like pop lists and combo boxes.
> There is in column definition screen or in RON a check-box named
> Soft-Lov. If you check it for a column with a domain with allowable
> values, the generator will generate a record group ( based on table
> CG_REF_CODES ) which dynamically populates the GUI item.
>
> hope this helps
> Jacek

  Are changes to the record group bound to the table or is management   of the record group required within the app?

  Thanks again.

• Mikki