Dependant properties in XML Forms

Hi all,
I have a set of dependant properties, simillar to the Country / Cities example in the sap guides, and i understand how i can add this to the properties of a file, but how would i go about presenting these properties through the edit screen of an XML Form so that the cities properties display when a country is selected?
Thanks

Hi Richard,
I would suppose that the property renderer which renders your dependant property takes care of this.
The property renderer for the country property would have to make sure that when a country is selected the city property values are changed accordingly. The easiest would be to just do a server roundtrip with the new country value. The renderer for the city property would check the value of the country property and display the appropriate values accordingly.
There is a renderer in the standard for dependant properties. Maybe that one will work for you as well. It is:
Name: multi_dependence
Codelink: com.sapportals.wcm.control.util.PropertyRendererMultiDependence
Hope this helps,
Esther

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