How to short conditional pop-up menu on web page

[clipper]

I need to use a conditional pop-up menu on a search page.

In FM I have a pop-up field who shorts a range of car manufacturers and a conditional second one who shorts the models of each of them.

In HomePage I could't short the second field (models) value list.

Any idea please. Sorry for my english and my skill level.

[Keith M. Davie]

I am not clear on what you mean by "shorts a range".

It sounds like you have two fields. One field is car manufacturers and the other is car models. You want your client to enter something like "Ford" and "Taurus" in order to find some records.

Basically you are attempting to perform an exact search (or -find) of two fields. Please research this cdml forum for links to the reference to technical papers on the exact search which has been posted at least 10 times over the past year. There is a wealth of valuable information on these forums which can answer most of the questions being asked. Takes a bit of research. Research is something which developers must do, especially beginning developers.

[clipper]

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Originally posted by Keith M. Davie:

I am not clear on what you mean by "shorts a range".

It sounds like you have two fields. One field is car manufacturers and the other is car models. You want your client to enter something like "Ford" and "Taurus" in order to find some records.

Basically you are attempting to perform an exact search (or -find) of two fields. Please research this cdml forum for links to the reference to technical papers on the exact search which has been posted at least 10 times over the past year. There is a wealth of valuable information on these forums which can answer most of the questions being asked. Takes a bit of research. Research is something which developers must do, especially beginning developers.

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[clipper]

Still confused.

I have a field with car manufacturer and model in FM.

I need to make a web search to this field with two pop-up fields. First one with car manufacturers and second one with the model list based on the manufacturer:

BMW 318

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325 TD...

So first I made two calculation fields to obtain manufacturers and models separated from the original field. Then I used the results like list values for two pop-up fields. "Manufacturer" field and "models" field based on the relationship with "manufacturer". Ok, it works in FM.

Now, in web search page, I use -Sort field tag to call "Manufacturer" and it sorts me the list with 50 values and works fine. Again -Sort field tag to call "Models" field but the field is blank.

[Keith M. Davie]

Ok. What is your code for the link or form action?

Next, what is the code on your results format file to display the data?

[Tyfud]

Clipper -

Easier than you might think, you use portals. Conditionals can be done, check out TechInfo Article # 105336 @ http://www.filemaker.com/support/techinfo.html

OR simply click on the link below to go directly to the article:

http://tidb.filemaker.com/ti/FMPro?-db=ti.fp5&-lay=list&-sortfield=relevancecalc&-sortorder=descend&artnmbr=105336&-token.0=105336&-token.1=1&-find=&-format=detail.html&-recid=3516 3