Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

[drgarytraub]

I am wanting to have a lookup place its selected value at the end of the text, instead of completely replacing it. Better yet, I would like the selected value to be inserted in the existing text at the cursor.

Any ideas?

[GGandhi]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

adding at the end is easy
get the value of the textarea like
var j1 = {dialog.object}.getvalue('text_area');
var j2 = the look up value;
j1 = j1+j2;
{dialog.object}.setvalue('text_area', j1);

adding at the cursor, hard work. i am sure given time it can be done.

[Davidk]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

See if this helps... https://www.alphasoftware.com/alphaf...is-set-as-HTML

[drgarytraub]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

Hi guys,

I have no problem using javascript to append to end of text. What I am wanting to do though is use the standard lookup table and append that data to the end of the text.

[GGandhi]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

What I am wanting to do though is use the standard lookup table and append that data to the end of the text.

how via ajaxcallback? or using a function sqllookup()

[drgarytraub]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

Actually, I think I understand what you mean. I can use a lookup to bring that data to a dummy field, then use get value and set value methods to add that data to end of the text of the actual field. My question then would be where would I put the javascript code so that it fires automatically when the user selects from the lookup table - and as I am typing this, I realize I can put the js code in the onchange event of the dummy field.

Am I thinking about this correctly?

[drgarytraub]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

Hi Gandhi,

No, I am using a standard alpha anywhere lookup table. User clicks icon to open a popup window containing a table of values, and then clicks select to bring that value in to the form field.

[GGandhi]

Re: Can a lookup append to end of text in a textarea field?

then i think your idea in post 6 should work. unless there is shorter way of doing without additional control.

edit:
when the pop up window comes and user selects the data the result of that selection is available, correct. then you just append to the textarea content like i mentioned in the second post.
if you show your example then i will be able to decipher where to add the code.