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Autopopulate Drop Down but be able to still choose Drop Down Options

posted on January 19, 2018

I have a Form that when they validate themselves will auto populate information.

But when Information is loaded to drop down.  I lose all my drop down choices also being pulled from the database.

Here is a picture of the DropDown being populated from database Before the Auto Populate Fields

Then when the user Validates themselves and information from the database autopopulates fields.  Drop downs look like this:

It no longer gives the user the option to modify the Language based on the original DropDown menu populated from the database.

Is there a trick to be able to keep these dropdown choices even after the autopopulate chooses one of the values?

 

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replied on January 19, 2018

I've been referencing a post you answered to in the past:

https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/90513/In-Forms-can-you-fill-in-a-field-from-a-database-and-also-have-the-same-field-be-a-dropdown-list?sort=oldest

Curious to see if this is still going to be my only option when it comes to Drop Downs currently.  Which is adding another drop down that includes all the options that doesn't get populated.  And then the user chooses to use the Old data or New data in another DropDown

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replied on January 22, 2018

I think for now that may still be the only option.

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replied on January 19, 2018

Looks like it does what it says, doesn't select the result but just appends the result in the options of choices from the Original DropDown and not the lookup result shown in the first picture.

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replied on January 22, 2018

We are experiencing the exact same issue. A royal pain. Hopefully, it has been fixed in 10.3. Laserfiche, can you please confirm this?

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replied on January 22, 2018

I'm not sure it would be considered a fix as I don't think it has ever or was ever intended to work that way. It would be a great enhancement request though.

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replied on January 19, 2018

I have not tried this, but when editing the field, there is an option that says 'Append choices to lookup results'. Have you tried that?

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