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Any chance I can see your form? You can attach it under the options tab in a reply. Generally speaking, to implement a cascading dropdown, the second dropdown has a filter on the data selection. One thing that sometimes trips form designers up is that the first dropdown is storing something other than what they expect - it may be displaying ...
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I have two tables - one for region and the other for site. The common data point is TCS (which is an abbreviation for Region) What I want to do is have dd B (site) give a limited number of choices based on dd A (region). dd A selections are the full region name and not the abbreviation. How do I accomplish this? ...
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So I think I have the filters set up correctly. However, dropdown 2 is not showing a list of values to choose from when I select the field.
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Hi:
I have read and followed the How To on cascading dropdowns and am still having a problem. I have a main data source, SourceA, which is an Access database and a secondary data source, SourceB, which is a SharePoint list. I am creating a form for data entry into my Access database. I want to have cascading dropdowns that are based on my ...
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So - in your SharePoint List - what does the Company field look like? Is it exactly the same as the values for your radio buttons, including case? I see the value of the buttons is all upper case.... I had misunderstood and thought this was cascading dropdowns, but your Company field is a radio button. :)
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Thank you! Your
instructions work, and yes, it is a tough design. I will do it the cludgey way for now and
learn about using another list to create cascading dropdowns with XPath filters
for our next iteration. Thank you so
much for your guidance, it has helped tremendously.
Cheers!
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Yes, in the form you are publishing / using - the XML files provide the data. However, I know you weren't able to attach the form with the XML files in the template due to size constraints. What view will I find these dropdowns in?
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The other thing that is weird is that I cannot use the cascading dropdowns if the resource file is not attached to the form. If i have it pointing to the sharepoint library it will not pull the data. Is that normal?
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Does this look right for the filter?
abbrev (a) is equal to abbrev b and
Region (a) is equal to Region (form)
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The filter is set up and the dropdown shows a set of rows, but they are all blank, no values.