Hello,

I have 2 tables in SQL....TrafficLog and PhotoEditors

In the Table TrafficLog you have the following fields

ID

Date

Login

PhotoEditors
Condition


In the Table
PhotoEditors you have the following fields
ID

FirstName
LastName


I have created an add new record form using the new record builder for Table TrafficLog .


I would like to have the field
PhotoEditors in the Table TrafficLog be a dropdown menu displaying the PhotoEditors items in the Table PhotoEditors and when saved the item goes in to the PhotoEditors field in the Table TrafficLog .

I have done the Search action for PhotoEditors table with the 3 fields

<TR ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP">
        <TD>
                <B>Send To: </B>
        </TD>

        <TD>
         <@CHOICELIST name=TSend TYPE=SELECT SIZE=1 OPTIONS=@@PEName[*,2] VALUES=@@PEName[*,2]>
        </TD>
</TR>

My question is how do I get Firstname and Last name displayed in the dropdown menu...right now it is only displaying first name?

Thanks in advance for your help....

Cecilia C. Cos
Data Analyst

Newsweek | 251 W 57th Street | New York, NY | 10019
212-445-4309

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cecilia,

 

The choicelist tag only allows you to use 2 columns, one for the values and one for the options.

There are a couple of ways you can resolve this.

1)       append the FirstName and LastName columns into a single value in your search action. Use a “custom column” in the search and enter a concatenation function for your database. In MySQL it would be concat_ws(‘ ‘,FirstName,LastName). The syntax will be different for other databases. This will give you a two column array of ID and FirstName+LastName which you can use in a choicelist tag.

2)       Use a select tag and a rows loop to build the dropdown instead of a choicelist tag

 

Dave Shelley

 

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Hello,

I have 2 tables in SQL....TrafficLog and PhotoEditors

In the Table TrafficLog you have the following fields

ID

Date

Login

PhotoEditors
Condition


In the Table
PhotoEditors you have the following fields
ID

FirstName
LastName


I have created an add new record form using the new record builder for Table TrafficLog .


I would like to have the field
PhotoEditors in the Table TrafficLog be a dropdown menu displaying the PhotoEditors items in the Table PhotoEditors and when saved the item goes in to the PhotoEditors field in the Table TrafficLog .

I have done the Search action for PhotoEditors table with the 3 fields

<TR ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP">
        <TD>
                <B>Send To: </B>
        </TD>

        <TD>
         <@CHOICELIST name=TSend TYPE=SELECT SIZE=1 OPTIONS=@@PEName[*,2] VALUES=@@PEName[*,2]>
        </TD>
</TR>

My question is how do I get Firstname and Last name displayed in the dropdown menu...right now it is only displaying first name?

Thanks in advance for your help....

Cecilia C. Cos
Data Analyst

Newsweek | 251 W 57th Street | New York, NY | 10019
212-445-4309

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

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