Category-listing by choice

[Willem Schildkamp]

When making a search-form, i am unable to allow the user to choose from a category by using a drop-down list, and then pressing submit (or whatever) to see all records in that category. How do i solve this?

Furthermore, i have a problem with controlling the size (max char) of such a dropdown list. When using the <select option...> i am unable to set the max length of the field.. -(

Hope you can help..

[Anatoli]

Field will take the longest text as size. That is HTML.

[MeltDown]

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Originally posted by Willem Schildkamp:

When making a search-form, i am unable to allow the user to choose from a category by using a drop-down list, and then pressing submit (or whatever) to see all records in that category. How do i solve this?

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The following works in FMP 5:

<form blah blah blah...

<Select Name="NameofSearchField" size=1>

<Option value="*">All Categories</Option>

<Option value="1">Category 1</Option>

<Option value="2">Category 2</Option>

<Option value="3">Category 3</Option>

</Select>

<input type="submit" name="-find" value="Find Selected Category">

</form>