On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:13:52PM +1000, Roger Lockerbie wrote: > To set the scene, I'm after a user being able to set the newspaper > masthead they work for via > a populated dropdown custom field, many mastheads may map to one > database, and one terminal > server so something like > > Masthead,Database > Border Mail, RegionalDB > Ballarat Courier, REgionalDB > SMH, MetroDB > TheAge, MetroDB > Mercury, MetroDB > > CF1 would be where you select the masthead, CF2 would result in showing > the associated > Database. > > Note that there could be hundreds, and they may change regularly hence the > desire to provide > some sort of CRUD interface rather than hand coding it within a Scrip. > > Any suggestions/pointers would be gratefully received.
You may be able to do some of what you want with Linked customfields and/or external custom fields. You should see the linking mechanism in the Admin UI when you have a select one custom field, and you can find external custom fields documentation in the docs directory. -kevin
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