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    Dropdown Box Repopulation - Wiki user is frustrated

    OK, I am very frustrated. I guess I should say I don�t do programming for a living. I am a newbie and I am trying to develop a hobby for retirement to help out at Church. Anyway, I picked Alpha because everything I read said it was easy to use and one could develop Web Apps without coding. (No, I did not expect that to be true, but I had hoped.) I find this no coding true for 90% of the app but that last 10% is driving me nuts. I am spending hours and days looking for answers here and on Wiki and without great success.

    The videos are great for new guys like me. The documentation on WIKI seem endless. But how the heck to do find anything???? I send hours every time I go out there and only find what I am looking for 30% of time, if that. Ok, enough ranting�

    I have a dialog that allows a users to edit or create new records. To edit a record, a dropdown box displays a name of an existing Recipe but brings back the Recipe ID. If a new Recipe is added, the dropdown box that will not show that record (repopulate) unless I close the dialog and reopen it. I was surprised that was not an easy way to may this happen but anyway I found some post here and they talked about a video. That explained how to do this, kind of. Actually there are two videos. The video says that �you would actually use a SQL statement� to populate your data.� So I found and read how to build the SQL statements in xBasic. The video says to use a built in utility function called �js_list_to_array� to prepare the data. I can�t find any documentation on this function. Can anyone point me to it? Or better tell me an easy way to force the dropdown box to repopulate.

    Sorry for being so long winded.

    Carl

    PS: Can�t wait to go figure out the next Function �"A5.form.populateSelect� - I did find that one. 
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    Re: Dropdown Box Repopulation - Wiki user is frustrated

    Originally posted by cwalko View Post
    The video says to use a built in utility function called �js_list_to_array� to prepare the data. I can�t find any documentation on this function. Can anyone point me to it?
    Have never watched the video but you can use interactive window to search functions that are not documented but you know are somewhere.

    In this case just open interactive window and type js and you find all functions starting js

    numbers = <<%num%
    one
    two
    three
    %num%

    ? js_list_to_array(numbers)
    = "['one','two','three']"

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      Re: Dropdown Box Repopulation - Wiki user is frustrated

      The dialog is an advanced component. If you use a grid with a detail view you can do what you want without coding. Probably 99%. And the 1% would be some code in an embed point.

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        Re: Dropdown Box Repopulation - Wiki user is frustrated

        Thank you both!

        I will look into starting over if working with Grids is easier than Dialog.

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          Re: Dropdown Box Repopulation - Wiki user is frustrated

          Carl, there are some easier methods now for the Dialog (which I personally find easier to work with than Grids, but that's me). Here is some info that may help you if your dialog is mostly complete.

          http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ed-July-1-2012

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            Re: Dropdown Box Repopulation - Wiki user is frustrated

            It is except for the some parts that seem to need coding like the dropdown box and having some calculated field show there data. I'll check out the link you provided. Thank you.

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