One valuelist depending on another valuelist’s selection

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tomhousley — Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:52 pm

Hello,

I have 3 tables, one for organisations, individuals and invoices and I would like to create a single table to make notes about the above as and when I need to.

The relevant tables are:

tbl_organisations

tbl_individual

tbl_invoice

the history table is called tbl_ history, the contents of which are:

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his_id           INT(6)    (NULL)           NO      PRI     (NULL)   AUTO_INCREMENT  SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          his_parentid     INT(6)    (NULL)           NO      MUL     (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          his_parenttable  INT(6)    (NULL)           NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          his_notes        TEXT      utf8_general_ci  NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          his_enteredby    INT(6)    (NULL)           NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          his_dateandtime  DATETIME  (NULL)           NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE

I have a fifth table which lists the names of the tables:

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tbl_id             INT(6)     (NULL)             NO      PRI     (NULL)   AUTO_INCREMENT  SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          tbl_name           CHAR(255)  latin1_swedish_ci  NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          tbl_description    CHAR(255)  latin1_swedish_ci  NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE          tbl_showinhistory  BINARY(1)  (NULL)             NO              (NULL)                   SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE

The /tbl_history/valuelists.ini file contains the following:

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[his_parenttable] __sql__ = "SELECT tbl_id, tbl_description FROM tbl_tables ORDER BY tbl_description"

The question is, when i create a new history record and I select the tbl_organisation, i would like this to then change the contents of the drop down below it to only show names of organisations, and if I select the invoices, it will ony show lists of invoices.

Sorry this is a bit of a long question, but I hope all the information is there for someone to assist.

Many thanks, Tom

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shannah — Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:04 pm

Hi Tom,

To achieve what you want, you’ll need to use a little javascript and ajax. You can add an onchange handler to your select list using widget:atts:onchange. This javascript function would then repopulate the other select lists according to what you need.

I think there have been a couple of similar questions on the forum over the years. If you browse through you should be able to find some of those discussions.

-Steve