Filling drop down in Interactive forms by ABAP

Hi experts,
I am new to Adobe forms.I am working on a form using SFP transaction, which consist of a table.In that table I have a dropdown
as a column.I want to fill the dropdown with values from a DB table.
I am working on pure ABAP.
Can any one help me to achive this,with step by step procedures...
Thanks&Regards,
Hans.

Hello Hans,
You might want to use "dynamic properties". With that you can populate the dropw-down list from the data contained in the form.
In Designer under Extras->Options you can find an entry for Binding. Check "show dynamic properties".
If you now go back to your DDL field on the form and look at the Object - Field tab you can see that "list elements" is a link. Click on this link and a dialog for specifying a data binding for the DDL items shows up. How to do it is straight forward: Just select the node where the data can be found and specify which nodes contain the key value and the display text.
It is very helpful if the content of the DDL is in a table like structure
Regards,
Juergen

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hi,
My requirement, is to use dynamic drop down in dynamic table. I am using webdynpro abap.
i populated the value in drop down.
Its working fine but the problem is how to fill the default value in drop down. because i want to bind the default value which im getting specify value from the table.because each row
im getting different values, like first row
CAR
, that CAR want to fill as a default value in drop down and second row as
BIKE
that BIKE want to fill as default value in drop down ( example drop down contain   car , bike , cycle).
In adobe form i binded like this
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i dont know whether this one is correct or wrong .
im getting default value as empty.
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