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    Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

    Have a small problem with dropdown boxes in a grid. Has anyone been able to get the Cascading Choices to work? If not I will report it as a bug as I have tried every permutation and it just does not want to know.

    Toby
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    Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

    No issues here - use them all the time - what's the error?
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Albert Einstein, (attributed)
    US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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      #3
      Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

      Thanks Peter

      Found what I was doing wrong, using two different DBs when I should have only been using one, another senior moment!

      Toby

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        Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

        Where can I learn to construct the cascading dropdown in a grid component? The help files want me to make a new dialog component. I just want to use the options in the grid component but can't seem to get even a very simple one made without getting an error in line 422. It says it's missing some subcomponent?

        Anyway, does anyone know where I can find a tutorial? I should be able to figure this out with trial and error, but not yet!

        Bill Belanger

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          Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

          Bill,
          Perhaps this is the video you are looking for:
          http://www.screencast.com/users/Alph...0-92db40b3e4cc

          I found it from this page:

          http://news.alphasoftware.com/V10Preview/videos.htm


          Hope this helps.
          Jay
          Jay Talbott
          Lexington, KY

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            #6
            Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

            Thanks Jay,
            It seems as though I'm doing things correctly but try as I might, I can't get one of these cascading dropdowns to work. I have two tables. One is the main, the other is simply for the dropdown and has two fields.

            I'm attaching a screenshot of the error in hopes someone mioght be able to decipher it and point me in the right direction.

            Thanks

            Bill Belanger

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              Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

              The screen

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                #8
                Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                Working preview is not the way to view your apps - show me what Live Preview does and the screen grab of the setting in the grid where you want to constrain the list.
                Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                  #9
                  Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                  Thanks Peter,
                  Unfortunately I can't get to live preview because I can't save the grid component.

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                    Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                    You have a system install issue. That message is not want you want to see. I'd shut down, try again if it still has a problem, reinstall, if this a problem ask Alpha for assistance. send a copy of the screen to Alpha as well.
                    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                    Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                    US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                      Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                      I guess I have to agree Pete. I tried the same thing on my home computer and had no problem at all creating that cascading dropdown. Guess I'll try reinstalling. Thanks for all the help. I'll report back.

                      Bill Belanger

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                        Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                        Assuming I had a bad install, I'm thinking that the developer software is responsible for creating the web components and the web server should be fine. Therefore, just uninstalling and re-installing the developer package should be the fix. Do I have the right idea?

                        Bill Belanger

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                          Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                          I uninstalled A5V10 developer. I reinstalled and made sure the version was the newest build, 3057 I think. I made two new tables. Imported my csv data to the main table. Put three new records in the second table, the one I want to use as a value list. Still get the errors when I try to use cascading.

                          Maybe this doesn't work well on a 2003 server? Or could it be that it's remote desktop? Although the WAS is installed on this machine, it's not running and I didn't get to the publish part. When I tried to add the component to an A5W page, I got another error.

                          Bill Belanger

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                            Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                            I'm on build 3059 now. If I choose textbox for paramedic in the data entry grid, all is fine. If I change it to dropdownbox, I get errors. I've set values for the "no choice". The error seems to tell me that the "no choice" is write only. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? I've done this on my XP machine now. It seems I'm the only one having problems with the cascading dropdowns, so I must be neglecting to check a box somewhere. I'm attaching the files if any has time to take a peek.

                            Thanks in advance,
                            Bill Belanger

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                              #15
                              Re: Dropdown Box (Cascading Choices)

                              On the server settings are you using compatibility mode?
                              I have found that a lot of glitchy stuff if it is turned off or on try changing it.

                              also are you using any freeform layout on this grid?

                              Chad
                              Chad Brown

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