Help needed with populating a drop-down list from an Access Database

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data drop-down list
Jason Murthy - 11:39am Feb 14, 2005 Pacific
Hello,
I am trying to use the data drop-down list from the custom library. I enter the name of my data connection and the other 2 variables in quotes when they are initialized, just like the example says to, but it still doesn't work. Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jason
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Denzil White - 5:46am Jul 28, 05 PST (#10 of 11)
Oh and before you say anything more I have also tried changing it from Javascript to the FormCalc, and no diff, maybe I am more stupid than I realised, heh,heh
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Henk Pisuisse - 12:06am Aug 9, 05 PST (#11 of 11)
I am having trouble (sleepless nights) with populating a drop-down list from an Access Database. The result is: I only get the first record from the data connection. So the connection works but I cannot go through the other records. Maybe there is an other way to do this.
I am trying to selectively fill a form with data from an MS-access database.
I hope someone can help me.
[email protected]
The Netherlands (small country in Europe)

If you email the access DB and the form to [email protected], I will try to take a look at it for you.

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Link:[Bulk insert SQL command to transfer data from SAP to Oracle|http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-dev/bulk-insert-sql-command-to-transfer-data-from-sap-to-oracle-cl_sql_connection-3780804]

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