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Populating a drop down box based on another drop down box selection

May 10, 2012 5:10 AM

Good day all;

On a form I am designing I have 2 drop down menus labeled, directorate and division.

What I would like to do is when the user selects a directorate, the division drop down is only populated with a list of divisions that belong to the selected directorate.

I am sure I have seen this question asked before, but, I am at a loss to find it…..

 

Thanks All

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576 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: Jono Moore, May 10, 2012 9:52 AM
 
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  • Srini Dhulipalla
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    1. Srini Dhulipalla,
    May 10, 2012 7:37 AM   in reply to The Chomp
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    Here is a sample that can give idea on how to do this..

     

    https://acrobat.com/#d=CpmL3cuLdnNPeJ6Vc0IhdQ

     

    Thanks

    Srini

     
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  • The Chomp
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    2. The Chomp,
    May 10, 2012 8:37 AM   in reply to Srini Dhulipalla
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    Thanks Srini.

    Before I saw your post I found the following. In your option which one would be better to use? I am looking at 5 directorates and each directorate having an max of 7 divisions

    if(boxA.rawValue == "month")

    {

    1. boxB.clearItems();
    2. boxB.addItem("JAN");
    3. boxB.addItem("FEB");
    4. boxB.addItem("MAR");

    }

    if(boxA.rawValue == "year")

    {

    1. boxB.clearItems();
    2. boxB.addItem("2012");
    3. boxB.addItem("2011");
    4. boxB.addItem("2010");

    }

     
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  • Jono Moore
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    3. Jono Moore,
    May 10, 2012 9:51 AM   in reply to The Chomp
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    I find it easier to do with a switch() statement and hand code it but if you have a lot of data doing some sort of loop through an array might be easier.

     

    Below is just a small snip of quite a long list I have in one form. Using xfa.event.newText to get immediate response from the dropdown.

     

    //on the Change event

    var selection = this.boundItem(xfa.event.newText);

    Desc.clearItems(); //Desc is the target dropdown

    Desc.rawValue = "";

    //above line needed to clear the displayed value in the next dropdown, clearItems() just clears the list.

     

    switch (selection)

    {

      case "AE":

           Desc.addItem("DF");

           Desc.addItem("FR");

           Desc.addItem("MS");

           Desc.addItem("PC");

      break;

      case "AN":

           Desc.addItem("BI");

           Desc.addItem("FI");

           Desc.addItem("GE");

           Desc.addItem("OT");

           Desc.addItem("ZO");

      break;

    }

     
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    4. Jono Moore,
    May 10, 2012 9:52 AM   in reply to Jono Moore
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    Anybody else lost the ability to get at the advanced formatting (setting font family, etc.)? Can't seem to find where it's gone...

     
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