Auto populate Edit field Text Box based on a Combo or Dropdown Value.

Hello Developers,

I'm new to the forum and fairly new to Mongoose.

I'm looking for some guidance/Help on how I can Auto populate Edit field Text Box based on a Combo or Dropdown Value.

I'm on Syteline 8.0.3.1 (CSI) and Ive added a combobox to the Opportunities form. The combobox has a object.UDFShortText1 binding and the component class Im using is CustNumVar The combo box shows the Customer Number and Im trying to then display the customer descritption Name on a edit field.

ie. when I select customer number 1234 I want it to display the related Customer Name. Ive tried a bunch of things and Im not able to get it to display.

ASny guidance or articles I can follow would gbe greatly appreciated.

thanks

Greg

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Yao Jiang

If you have an object with the CustNum and CustName properties. You can set or filter the object with the dropdown value on data change.

So add an event on data change to the dropdown that sets the current row of the object to the custNum value. This should display the corresponding customerName on the edit.

Legacy Contributor

Yao , thanks for the quick reply and pointing me to the adding an event , didn't think of that.

So I created a new event (first time) on the dropdown. and I set the Type to "Set Values" and response to

SETPROPVALUES(SSS_SLOpportunities.UDFMediumText1 = CustNumEdit.UDFShortText1)

However the response sent me back the text " CustNumEdit.UDFShortText1 "

Caitlin Porter

The best route to take for this is create a validator and add it to your CustNumVar component class. In that list source, make sure you have the CustomerNumber field and the CustomerName field. Then set the validator to "In Collection", call the same IDO, use the SetPropVar button to set the component with the property value, and for the property field use the CustomerNumber. Set the validator to validate immediately, and if done correctly it will populate the CustomerName anytime the customer number field is changed.

Legacy Contributor

Hi Caitlin,

Thanks for the input ...Im now trying your recommendation.

1. I've created a new Validator added it to the CustNumVar component class.

2. Set the Validator to the "In collection"

I'm a little unsure of the next step SetPropVar set the component with the property value , could you advise what that property value is here ...is it the compnent class name " CustNumVar" .there is a Target dropdown as well. seems I have to put something in there.

thanks !

Legacy Contributor

PS. the validator is on the dropdown, how do I makee it appear on the edit text box. excuse my basic questions , still in a learning phase - thanks !

Caitlin Porter

https://youtu.be/k5LelVjTqR8?t=638

This part of the video will walk you through building a validator

Caitlin Porter

The target is the name of the property that you want to populate, and the value will be the property that you want to populate it with, the value should look be something like: P(CustomerName)

The "P" keyword will replace it with the property value

Caitlin Porter

Under the "In Collection Only" section, your property should be the CustomerNumber property (or whatever is bound to the dropbox)

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