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Overview
In this lesson, we are going to review how to add a “Dropdown List” control to a page and different way to set its source including Stored Procedures, Prototypes or fixed lists.
Let’s get to it!
How to create a “Dropdown List” control?
In our first example, we are going to create a new control in “Free” mode. This option will allow us to display a fixed list of values without using an data source like a database Stored Procedure or API.
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Click on “Preview” button and new tab will display the page with the layout setting:
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How to connect datasets to “Dropdown List” control?
In the next example, we are going to create a Dataset inside the page and then we will link this object with the “Dropdown List” control.
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Notice that the new dropdown is showing the 4 values from the dataset below the previous example that we created.
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You can reference Dropdown’s selected value using the ‘ID’ property and selected text using ‘Descripcion’ property. For example: &Dropdown1.ID or &Dropdown1.Descripcion |
Recap
In this lesson, we learnt different ways to create “Dropdown List” controls in Wayfast. There are multiple options to create a dropdown showing data from different source. We can create an Stored Procedure and similar than Dataset, we can connect this data with the dropdown control to display different values and stored the selection from the user.
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