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How To Create Filtered, Ordered DropDownBox Lists

Author:  Steve Workings Have you used the DropdownBox control for any of your fields yet? If you haven't, then you should consider trying it where appropriate. If you have, you may have run into a limitation in the point & click interface. The limitation is that there's no way to filter or order the records using the genies. Let's see what you can do about this. Image 1 shows a typical developer's first attempt to populate a DropDown list using a SQL data source. But if you need to filter (and to a lesser degree order) your list based on variable values or other considerations, you'll quickly run out of road.