Input Control with dynamic choices

nhofkes

Build Number	Database	OS
v10 build 3512	MariaDB	Windows

I am trying to create a standalone input control (in the menu), similar to the one described in the video (https://www.awareim.com/dokuwiki/docs/5000_videos/530_standalone_input_controls), which should be a drop-down but based on dynamic choices (which uses a custom query). It seems that this isn't possible, there is only a drop-down if the choices are not dynamic. If the choices are dynamic, the input control changes into a normal text box. Is this correct, and is there a work-around?

Jaymer

I cannot answer your specific question.
I use this feature quite heavily at the top of grids.
But it’s always been a pain because it doesn’t support radio buttons or yes, no fields.
You might have a grid showing customers and you would like to offer an easy way to filter out past due customers.
So the custom control might say “ don’t show past due customers” and you’d like it to be a checkbox or a yes, no radio button.
But you can’t do that.
You can only do a yes or no field as a text field and the user has to type yes or no. I haven’t checked this beyond version 8.8.

nhofkes

Hi Jaymer,
I think in your situation you could create an input control that stores its value in the LIRU or Session object in a field that has choices Yes and No. In that case you would get a drop-down with those two choices. But admittedly, that doesn't make it a radio button or a yes/no field as such.

I was referring to an input control that you put in the top menubar or the header of the page, so not for a grid.
I noticed that when you create a form that has a control for the field with dynamic choices, a dropdown is displayed in the form. So, one work-around is to display the form and the user can change the value using the dropdown. But then you need an additional button to close that form, so it's not fully equivalent to the standalone input control that executes a process immediately after the value is selected and does not require a second click.