Chapter 4. Building Lookups
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating an automatic lookup
- Creating a lookup dynamically
- Using a form for building a lookup
- Building a tree lookup
- Displaying a list of custom options
- Another way of displaying custom options
- Building a lookup based on record description
- Building the Browse for Folder lookup
- Building a lookup for selecting a file
- Creating a color picker lookup
Introduction
Lookups are the standard way to display a list of possible selection values to the user, while editing or creating database records. Normally, standard lookups are created automatically by the system, and are based on extended data types and table setup. It is also possible to override the standard functionality by creating ...
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