Category:ComboBox

You could use four different kinds of combo boxes in Plex-XML:

1. A simple combo box is defined within the Plex-XML formats and could be realized on the fly just by changing the field shape value in the format definition of your field on runtime. Generally it is used for status fields.

2. PLEXML A/XML ComboBoxIntern: A combo that is defined in Plex and could be used to show referred table entries (RefersTo) in a combo. In most cases this is used if your referenced table has less than 200 records. Otherwise the user will recognize a delay while the data is fetched from the DB.

3. GenerateCombo: A combo that is defined in XSLT and Plex and uses an AJAX-Request to fetch and load the values into your HTML. This could be used, if the values of your combobox are depending from another value that is entered right before on your page. One example: If you select a project from a first combo, you could dynamically load a second combo with all the tasks for that selected project.

4. GenerateAutoComplete: A auto suggest box that is defined in XSLT and Plex. It works like the Google search page and shows matching values from your DB while you type.

5. GenerateSelectButton: If you don't like combos or if you have a lot of records you could also use the good old "F4-Function". In the calling function you will get a button that opens the new select record window.