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question - which way is best to populate fields

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  • Keith Hubert
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    Re: question - which way is best to populate fields

    Hi Bruce,

    I'm not sure what you are asking here.

    Do you want to select from a dropdown a State say "AL", in one field and have another field be filled with "Alaska"?

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  • SmartMLMer
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    Re: question - which way is best to populate fields

    Question:

    I don't get how to use this as I am not sure how the symbols work.

    Could you write out the specific code to put in AL, AK, AR, AZ
    and then having that in one field, another field to be populated with Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas or Arizona? Somehow I am missing the actual how on this.

    It will have to be a click on this and paste it in, in both cases as this is something I will be using a lot and I am missing the specific how to's at this time.

    Thank you.

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  • SmartMLMer
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    Re: question - which way is best to populate fields

    Actually this looks like exactly what I need.
    Thank you so very much. Will let you know.
    Bruce

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  • Keith Hubert
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    Re: question - which way is best to populate fields

    Hi Bruce,

    I know this is a little deeper than you might want to go for the moment, but the time will come!!!

    Have a look in the help file for CSTATES(). Not knowing what you are doing on your application, this could be of use to you.

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  • Stan Mathews
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    Re: question - which way is best to populate fields

    Are you asking how to translate "AK" to "Alaska" and the reverse should you want to use one or the other in a report, letter, etc?

    Don't know what that would have to do with populating fields.

    Build a translation table, for example for the states, and do a lookuip to it.

    Code:
    st = "Kentucky"
? LOOKUP("TRANS","STATE = "+quote(st),"s_abbrv")
= "KY"
sbrv = "FL"

? lookup("trans","S_abbrv = "+quote(sbrv),"state")
= "FLORIDA        "
    You can have as many lookup tables as you want or the translations can all be in the same table (fields for each pair). Some records will not have values in the state and s_abbrv fields (for example) if there are more than 50 records in another translation pair.

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  • SmartMLMer
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    question - which way is best to populate fields

    I have documents with over a hundred fields that we are producing and which use, for instance State in these different way CA, Calif., California and California. There are thirty or so fields with these different possibilities.

    My question is which is the best way to populate multiple fields and would it be from a separate table or just use one field in the table working in?

    Also, how does one do it? Like Case(Field1 = AK , "Alaska", = AL , Alabama, etc.)
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