Lol, I had not seen this thread yesterday when I pointed out your JavaScript docs. Good timing. With this and Laurent's additional findings it looks like there is some material for a part 3.
Jason On Jan 7, 2013 7:25 AM, "Sylvain YVON" <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Hi, > > We were just looking into this with Laurent this morning for another > requirement. The cleanest solution is clearly Misi's. > There just two drawbacks : > - you have to manage a table for your temporary records (=> delay, > clustering, i/o ...) or use a "temporary table" if your DBMS allows it > - it implies a delay on the client-side > > Now there is a client-side only solution with JavaScript (yes, AGAIN :p). > You need a dummy character menu, named "EmptyMenu" in my example. Attach it > to your field. > The following code must be run from a Run Process action in an active > link, and re-creates the dummy menu with the values you pass to the object > constructor : > javascript new > ARMenu("EmptyMenu",{novals:false,mval:[{l:"val1",v:null},{l:"val2",v:null}]}); > > > > > > > > I can't test it right now, but this code _should_ work to add an item : > javascript window.ARMenus["EmptyMenu"].mval.push({l:"label",v:"value"}); > new ARMenu("EmptyMenu",window.ARMenus["EmptyMenu"]); > > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Misi Mladoniczky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The drop-down-list must be created as a char-field with a search-menu >> attached. You can set the display-attributes so that it looks like a >> drop-down-list. >> >> When you "Add" stuff, you must create records in a form, that will later >> be displayed in your search-menu. Use the Push-Fields action to create >> records. >> >> Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se >> >> > I need to create the following: >> > >> > 1. A button named AddList with label Add to List. >> > >> > 2. A Character field called eg new_item. >> > >> > 3. A dropdown list initially empty (ie no dropdown items) >> > >> > The user enters text into the new_item field and clicks on AddList >> > button to add the text item in new_item to the dropdown. >> > >> > I have scoured the docs and can't quite work it out. >> > >> > How would I do this? >> > >> > Angus >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________________________________________ >> > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >> > "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" >> > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
