I am trying to come up with the best way of doing the following:

I have a form with two fields: one character field and the other drop-down.
Each has a maximum of about 8 unique records.

What I want to do is create a cross reference file in that form of all
possible combinations of those data values, and I want to populate it
automatically from scratch.  The trigger isn't all that important - I have
some flexibility there.  I cannot seed the data in the character field - it
is read from the DB via a SQL call to a metatable, and each installation may
have different data.

I have thought about building a series of guides to read the data and create
the data, or doing it directly in SQL.  I have the SQL call to read the data
for the character field already working in a menu that's attached to that
field.  The problem is that I can't figure out how to use the SQL to create
new records via workflow, unless I also use a direct SQL call to write the
data to the form.  That's sounding like it might be a farily complex stored
procedure that I have no experience in constructing.

Anyone done something like this before?  I thought it was going to be much
easier than its looking like now, and I think I'm getting into analysis
paralysis mode.

Rick

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