Autopopulating fields on forms

Hi

i have a Table A with id and description fields and Table B with a description field. Any suggestion on how to do it on a form whenever I select an entry to Table A, it automatically populates the description on Table A to Table B.

Thanks!

Schneizer

If it depends on a selection in form, it’s nothing to be written to database, correct? It sounds like a job for a join or display method.

hi martin,

yes, I just need to display the value on the form whenever the user selects an id. I can only populate the values once I save it.

thanks!

Schneizer

So what exactly do you need from us?

when the user selects an id, the description should be populated before saving.

In my scenario, it only populates when I saved it.

I need to populate the description field when the user selects an id before saving the form…

If you want to execute an action when activating a record in form, call it from active() method of the data source. If you want something else, you’ll have to be a bit more specific.

You can override modified method of the fieldControl Id of table A

public boolean modified()

{

boolean ret;

ret = super();

if (TableA.id)

{

Tableb.Description = TableA.Description

}

return ret;

}

i

Krishna