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Unbound Cascading Combos
Tim Smith 
   
11 days ago
I actually happened upon this new feature just before the video went live, and I figured it out on my own (yay me lol).
I did happen upon an interesting interaction, however: I am using cascading combo boxes on a form where I want to select an option, but don't want to store that value to the form's corresponding table (I am using the selected option for use in a transaction log), so the combo boxes are unbound.
When I went to reference the value in the combo box (presumably the ID) for the transaction log, it was instead returning the number of the dropdown list (0-7) instead of the ID.
I was able to resolve this by instead referencing "combo.column(0)", which returned the ID number that I was looking for! I thought I would share, just in case anyone else finds themselves in a similar situation.
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
11 days ago
Nice work figuring that out on your own, Tim. And thanks for sharing the Column(0) tip for anyone else who runs into that behavior.

In the extended cut I covered some situations involving unbound cascading combo boxes, including using them as filters.
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