I have a value list called "Pricelist". I have a popup showing the value list so that I can select an item. Now I want a script trigger that after someone selects a current category, only the items from this category will be displayed.

If I go into the value list editor, I can select "show only related items, …) and this works fine but of course I want to do this in a script step, so that when there is no category selected, it will display all items (if I do this now, it won't display anything based on the relationship).

I'm not sure about the script triggers... You can get a ValueList to automatically switch between two different lists by setting up some special relationships and calculations.

Assuming that you have two fields: 'Category' and 'Item', then do the following:

Define 2 calculated fields:

1. 'ValueList calc' = If (IsEmpty(Category) ;

ValueListItems ( Get(FileName); "All Items" ); ValueListItems ( Get(FileName); "Related Items" ) )

2. 'RecID' = Get(RecordID)

Create 2 extra instances of your table in the relationship graph and create the following self-join relationships:

1. Table::Category = Table2::Category

2. Table::RecID = Table3::RecID

Define 3 value lists:

1) 'All Items' = From Field: "Table::Item"

2) 'Related Items' = From Field: "Table2::Item (related values only)

3) Define the 'PriceList' = From Field: "Table3::ValueList calc" (related values only)

I had a stab by implementing it with script triggers, although something still is a bit quirky - is the task done in the vicinity of whats required.

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Thanks, mfero's one seems to work well. I like calculation fields better to be honest, there are still some people in the office using 8.5.

I have one other question. If I have a calculation field that is filled with price IDs (13, 15, 3032, 3504), is it possible to have another relationship with a table that can give names to this, so that I can have a value list with the first column being the ID and the second value the actual name of the corresponding price item?

... is it possible to have another relationship with a table that can give names to this, so that I can have a value list with the first column being the ID and the second value the actual name of the corresponding price item?

I don't think the "Also display values from 2nd field" feature of Value Lists will function correctly with the approach I described.

However, you can display a corresponding name or number to your item in a second field if you set up a relationship for this.

Here's an example file... I believe that indexing needs to be turned off in the calculation fields but turned on for the other fields.

Combo_ValueLists.fp7.zip

Yes, I finally got it all to work now. Took me some time but thanks to your help it finally works. Thanks a bunch.

Glad to hear it. :