OK, time to get the masters to help. I'm trying to get the chain feature to work for dropdowns. I'm trying in MRE and in the app folder as well. No luck.

I'm using CAR, two dropdowns (country and car). Without chaining they work, but as soon as I chain they both show up empty. Any ideas?

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Mark,

Have you checked out the previous posts by various people?

For starters -
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3

T

Hi Tony
I've seen a number of posts, but they're all trying to do something special, such as one that you referenced, which is have multiple chains. I'm literally just doing a single chain from the CAR file, not a FEX. I'm using Dev Studio 764.

I went through this too once... It's one of those things that you gotta wonder why it was developed this way.

When you select your field from the Master, only a value field is inserted, not a display field. Drag/Drop the field you want into the Display field edit box on top of the data source view.

I think that should fix it up for you.

Mark,

The principle is just the same, however, a few questions -

• Are you using painter?
• Are you using masters or focexecs?
• What is the exact version of 7.6 that you are on?

T

hi,

There are no. of ways of doing chaining.

One - Hold the column values you wanna chain in a hold file. APP HOLD the hold file and create a master file. Then use that master file for populating both the dropdowns.

Then click the icon - add to the chain at the top.

Second - You can use Javascript functions like OnChange in the text editor.

Search for this function in the forum. You willget lots of examples.

Thank you

aravindan

Tony, WF Dev Studio 764.

ChannyS...hero of the day. That's it...you have to drag the field into the value AND display fields.

Glad to be of help. I went through the same thing not long ago and had to debug through IBI's JavaScript to figure out what the problem was.