Multiple entries from a value list

[sloisell]

Hi,

Being an authentic end-user, my question is quite simple...(but I have not found any answer in the archives yet)

How can I enter more than one entry in a field refeering to a value list (only these values are valid)?

Field : "language"

Value list: fre eng spa ital ger jap ....

How to get :

fre; eng; spa

or

fre

eng

spa

When I select a second value it overwrites the first selected.

I use FileMaker 4.0 french version (in case there would be an other french speaking on-line..)

Thank you

Sophie

[mse]

Try Pop-up file from www.onegasoft.com

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Salut Sophie,

Finally another FM user in the Hexagon

The easier method would be to change your value list to a checkbox instead of a pop-up.

Another method would be to use a global field, attach your current value list to it, and use a little button next to the VL with a script :

SetField(yourfield, global & "

[mse]

Me too...

[Ugo DI LUCA]

[ernst]

Hi

Here's another suggestion from " l'etat narcotique " or whatever your president called it...

If you use a popup MENU you can shift-select multiple items.

Greetings,

Ernst.

[sloisell]

Hi,

This is my first post on the forum and I really appreciate your quick replies.

The checkbox would be a simple solution but there is too many different values per value list.

The creation of a button next to the VL with a script, seems difficult to me....I'll try.

Popup menu?, How can I view the value list that way?

Sorry, for these simplistic questions...I'm a poor little librarian!

And I do not have a president...but a Prime minister...

Sophie

[ernst]

>>And I do not have a president...but a Prime minister...

Excusez moi Sophie,

In the 'Field Format' dialog you can have make the valuelist display as Popup Menu for the selected field (as opposed to value list, checkbox en radiobutton)

Regards,

Ernst.

[sloisell]

Ernst,

Thanks so much for pointing me where to look. I looked at the 'Field Format' dialog before but, as I'm using a french version, I did not see where the equivalent of popup menu was. It was just there!

Thanks again,

Sophie

[Vaughan]

Curiously, multiple entries can be selected in a pop-up menu by holding down the Shift key when making the other selections.

Even more curiously (and somewhat alarmingly) multiple radio buttons can also be selected in the same way. This I consider a break with interface conventions and don't encourage, but it's worth remembering because it means we cannot assume a field based on radio buttons has just one entry.

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Hi,

Here's a quick demo of the scripted value list I was discussing at first.

An improved version would not allow the user to use Shift keys

Well yes, I really won't like the user to mess up with value lists...but that's my way to go vs Ernst that seems, from the samplers (awesome BTW) he already released, be using these keys.

It's up to you.

multiple.fp5.zip

[ernst]

Hi Vaughan,

Curiously, multiple entries can be selected in a pop-up menu by holding down the Shift key when making the other selections.

Even more curiously (and somewhat alarmingly) multiple radio buttons can also be selected in the same way. This I consider a break with interface conventions and don't encourage, but it's worth remembering because it means we cannot assume a field based on radio buttons has just one entry.

You are absolutely 200% right there. Specially about the radio buttons...

But the fact is that the popup menu's work like that, and can be a usable solution for somebody that just wants to get the job done, or is just beginning to learn about Filemaker.

Must say though, that sometimes I find it hard to decide if I should just try to answer somebody's basic question, or if I should directly try to point them to nicer, but usually more complex, solutions.

I normally go for the first option unless I have the feeling that somebody is really searching the wrong way. Blah, blah, blah, you supposedly get the idea...

And hi Ugo,

Nice and clean sample. Specially the adding items.

About 'shift selecting' in the popup menu; I would not use that in a solution, find it not intuitive at all. I'd much rather use something like you showed here...

Regards and good night!

Ernst.