Filtered valuelist

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Filtered valuelist

Postby djlapin » Wed May 09, 2012 11:58 pm

I have a "service_casemis" valuelist, based on records in a choice_list table. They are linked to the other tables by UID keys, established when a user selects a service from a drop-down menu.

Some of the values are no longer used, because the codes have been retired. However, old records may still have them assigned.

I can find the current ones in choice_list by, say, today's date. I could create a dataset of these records to populate a static valuelist. So these could appear in the drop-down for the user to select.

But how, then, could I also show the legacy values for records that have these values assigned? The user doesn't need to *select* the legacy values, but should be able to see and remove them.

Thank you,
Don
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This sample has both the old (asterisked) and the current services listed.)
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Re: Filtered valuelist

Postby john.allen » Thu May 10, 2012 5:19 am

Why not use the 'fallback' valuelist option? For some things it doesn't work so for instance in find mode the valuelist will always revert back to the fallback valuelist which sometimes isn't wanted. But it sounds like in this case it would work. This might be especially true if I read your post correctly that users will actually be updating these legacy values.
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Re: Filtered valuelist

Postby djlapin » Fri May 11, 2012 8:42 am

I just tried it, and it seems to work very well.

Thanks John!
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Re: Filtered valuelist

Postby djlapin » Fri May 11, 2012 8:51 am

BTW, is it possible to have a fallback valuelist of a fallback valuelist?

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