> Sure - you can do this with a ListBox control. This control will allow the
> user to ONLY select from a predefined list.
>
> You can find information on the ListBox in the online help, if you have
> questions of course just ask.
>

Thanks. Now that I know what it is called, I should be good to go.

> Last thing - Databases are really all about rules, rules that describe the
> data. So even if you use a listbox it is still a good idea to go ahead and
> make that CONSTRAINT at the database engine level. Or create a Foreign Key
> constraint, which you can do all in the GUI as a different path to the same
> goal.
>

You are 100% right and I will add the constraint. I am familiar with
administrating small MySQL databases via PHP on the server, so I
thought that the world of GUI database (where I'm not hammering out
the GUI in HTML) would be easy. Oh, how naive!


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