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shravan
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Hello everybody,

My question is about the fields in HTML page. When I data bind a parameter field(for example: drop down ) dynamically to a data source, I noticed that the values in the drop down are sorted by Value Field instead of Display Field. Is there any way to make the WebFOCUS to sort those values according to Display Field, instead of Value Field ?

Thank you very much.

Shravan

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ChannyS
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Same answer as the other one today.... user your own procedure to populate the HTML controls and then you'll be able to display whatever you'd like however you'd like.


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FrankDutch
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Yes....

Can you post some code to explain what you mean!




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shravan
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Frank,

I have a parameter(combo box) Country on the HTML form. I linked that to country.mas data source (not procedure) dynamically. country.mas is getting its data from a table in our SQL Server 2005 database. country.mas has two fields CountryId , CountryName . CountryId is tied to Value Field, where as CountryName is tied to Display Field of my Country combobox in the HTML form. I send CountryId to a SQL Server stored procedure as parameter. I populate CountryName in the HTML form. What's happening here is, WebFOCUS is populating Country combo box sorted by Country Codes , instead of Country Names. I want it to populate the combo box sorted by Country Name .

Country - Code
----------------------------
Canada - 4
Denmark - 2
England - 5
France - 3
Greece - 1

The order in which WF is populating the combo box is Greece, Denmark, France, Canada, England. (ordered by Country Codes 1,2 3 4 5)

The order I want is Canada, Denmark, England, France, Greece.


Thanks.


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Darin Lee
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ChannyS gave you the answer you need. The GUI tools provide a "quick and dirty" way to populate your boxes. They provide NO additional functionality for manipulating the order, appearance or any other property of values in the box (other than the possibility of adding an ALL value). You can create your own procedure which manipulates things to you exact need and then reference that procedure rather than just relying on a straight data read. File layout, format, and all you need to know to do this is in the documentation.
There are also numerous posts with examples on the forum of creating content for you drop-down controls.


Regards,

Darin


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GinnyJakes
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For future reference, you can do this from the HTML Layout Painter in 7.6.5.


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shravan
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Ginny,

Currently I am using 7.6.5.


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GinnyJakes
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quote:
Setting the Display Value for a Dynamic List
How to:
Set the Display Value for a Dynamic List Using the Variable Editor
When using a Dynamic Accept list, you may select a value to be displayed as a parameter.
A dynamic list retrieves values from a specified data source when the request is run. The
display value can be different from the return value by using the Values for Displayed Field
option in the Variable Editor.
Note: Setting the display value for a dynamic list is only applicable if you are using a data
source that contains both a code and description field.
For more information on the Variable Editor, see the Creating Reports With the Report Painter
chapter in Creating Reports With Graphical Tools.


This is on page 30 of the Summary of New Features for 765. There is more detailed information after that paragraph. I've done it and it works well.

Or you can use a procedure as stated above.


Ginny
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shravan
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Sorry guys,

I forgot to post what I did to solve my problem. I used procedures(.fex files) to populate my fields (instead of data sources [.mas files]).

Thank you all.


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