relating two pick list together, but enabling the relating

Posted by Philsmith on 17-Jul-2014 04:19

we note that we can relate two pick list together in terms of a parent/dependent type relationship, but that  it restricts  the use of associating the dependent items with more than one parent item. Can we achieve this by way of another method e.g java script relating the items within two standard pick lists?

any help would be much appreciated 

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Posted by Hans De Smet on 17-Jul-2014 04:57

Hi Phil,

This is what is mentioned in Chapter 2 of the Rollbase in Action document (http://www.progress.com/products/rollbase/resources/rollbase-in-action) mentions about this:

"Limitation: Each value in a dependent picklist may belong to only one value from the main picklist.
If you need to re-use values in dependent picklists because one or more values needs to be
associated with more than one value from the main picklist, you should instead create new Object
definitions and use a lookup Field dependency. See the Relationships section below for more
information regarding configuring relationship Lookup Fields to use Main and Link lookups to
dynamically filter available selection choices."

Kind regards,

Hans

Posted by Philsmith on 17-Jul-2014 05:33

thank you Hans, we will follow your advice and test this against our requirement.

Posted by Hans De Smet on 22-Jul-2014 02:45

Hi Phil,

I just wanted to check with you if you had any further questions on this one?

Kind regards,

Hans

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