Personally, I think it would be painful to have a menu like that to begin with. Add more items to it and try clicking around it. You'll see that it's difficult to navigate, especially when you get submenus with larger amounts of items. People will try to click something then it might disappear because they hovered over a different part or something. What I would suggest is to set up either a table field (set up as a tree) or a List Box to do this, otherwise people will not like the application.
With that being said though, you probably will have to go the route you
don't want to go. The way I would do it would probably be to put the
menu of the "Incident" field on another field that stores the request ID
of the menu item and sit this field behind the "Incident" field so they
appear to be parts of the same field. In the menu, have the labels be
what you are displaying ("Down", "Intermittent flapping", etc) and the
actual value of the field is the Request ID. Then, when the menu
selection is made, run an Active Link that sets the other fields. It's
nothing elegant, but it works.
Shawn Pierson
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:02 AM
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Subject: Tiered Menu
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Hi,
I have created a search menu with a tiered drop down and I want to set
the details that the user chooses into the underlying fields. For
example if the user chooses the following from the menu
->Problem
->Link
->ADSL
->Down
I would like to set 'Link', 'ADSL', 'Down' into 3 different fields. How
could I do this without setting the field with the tiered menu with the
Request ID to get the underlying information.
Please can someone assist me on this.
Also see attached picture of an example.
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