Hi, all:

I'm feeling unusually dense today so hopefully you can get my head wrapped around a custom menu problem.

Background:

In the aviation world there's a list we call an ATA list that references different components on an aircraft, like so:

12 Servicing

1210 Fuel Servicing

1220 Oil Servicing

1230 Hydraulic Fluid Servicing

1240 Coolant Servicing

18 Helicopter Vibration

1800 Helicopter Vibration/Noise Analysis

1810 Helicopter Vibration Analysis

1820 Helicopter Noise Analysis

In my solution, rather than send someone off to a layout and have him or her search through all of codes for the one they want (we're talking hundreds, here), I thought, "Hey--why not just have a custom menu named ATA Codes so when a user clicks on it, the main headings appear...

12 Servicing

18 Helicopter Vibration

21 Air Conditioning

...then when a user clicks on the menu item "12 Servicing", a fly-out menu would appear with its subordinate codes, e.g., if I clicked on ATA Codes -> 12 Servicing, a fly-out menu list would appear with...

1210 Fuel Servicing

1220 Oil Servicing

1230 Hydraulic Fluid Servicing

1240 Coolant Servicing

...so if I were to click on 1210 Fuel Servicing, that would populate a text field named (you guessed it) ATA Code.

I've already set up a custom menu for other functions and it's working fine, so... :S

As always, your help will be GREATLY appreciated!

Have a safe and insane Fourth!

This cannot be done with FMP 8.5.

I'd use filtered portals to display the options and allow selection.

Thanks, Vaughan--I was afraid of that.

Currently, I have it set up as a drop-down menu in a portal but because of field width constraints, the text for the longer codes are "ellipsied" out...but filtering the portal is a good idea--something to work on until the fireworks go off later today, anyway.

Thanks again!