Dropdown selection to autopopulate 2nd dropdown

[Gailc]

Hi,

Initially my form worked fine. I had a dropdown that autopopulated a text
box. Then some of the data in the text box had to be selected from. At this
point I changed the text box to a dropdown. Now I have to dropdowns.

I have this working but 2 things have happened that I cannot fix. Some of my
2nd dropdowns no longer autopopulate -
1. I get a blank and I have to make a slection
2. When the form is saved the selected data in the second dropdown doesn't
save - it defaults to the first name on the list of the dropdown....

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I hope all this makes sense.

Thanks

Gailc

 

[Michelle Beall]

You get a blank because the node the drop down is bound to has no value. Set
the value of that node based on the selection in the first drop down and that
should fix your problem #1

 

[Gailc]

I have fixed #2 - "When the form is saved the selected data in the second
dropdown doesn't save - it defaults to the first name on the list of the
dropdown...." by removing the check mark (update this value when the
reslt......) in the field or group properties of the affected box

 

[Gailc]

Hi Michelle,

Thanks for responding.

This is were I run into problem #2.

When I bind dropdown #2 to dropdown #1 - I get the autopopulate to work but
in dropdown #2 I sometimes have more than one name to choose from and
regardless of the selection I make when the form is saved\published it
defaults to the first name in the list.

Any ideas how I get around this?

Gail