Need to sort drop-down box list

How do we go about sorting in ascending/decending order a drop-down box list of text/name items?

Christian,
Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like Acrobat 8.0 broke something that prevents my sample form from working correctly.
It has to do with the call to
resolveNodes("#items[*]")
Fortunately, the bug will be fixed in Acrobat's next release.
As a workaround, I would encourage you to have a look at the
new list object properties and methods now available in Acrobat 8.0. You should be able to use a combination of those new properties/methods along with some of the original script in this sample in order to come-up with an update solution that works.
Stefan
Adobe Systems
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Hi,
It was said that the SET_* method will be called when you press enter on the view to trigger a server round trip.
For your case, I'd like to suggest you take standard coding for example.
That is the categorization in service ticket view in IC_AGENT role.
When select the first category, if the second category only has one value, it will be automatically set. which should be similar to your requirement.
component view GSMCDDLB/DropDownList
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METHOD SET_FIELDS CL_GSMCDDLB_DROPDOWNLIST_IMPL=CP
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2. You create a second dropdown which is empty.
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Hi i had a drop down box written with select and i had many options , when user selects the option it will insert this to database and when user goes to the edit form the preselected value has to be populate automatically in dropdown , but the last option is populating everytime when uses edit form.
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insert page:
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                <option value="District D">District D </option>
                <option value="District E">District E </option>
                <option value="District J">District J </option>
                <option value="District K">District K </option>
                <option value="District L">District L </option>
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                <option value="District Q">District Q </option>
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                <option value="D 531">D 531</option>
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                <option value="District D" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District D </option>
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                <option value="District L" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District L </option>
                <option value="District M" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District M </option>
                <option value="District N" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District N </option>
                <option value="District O" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District O </option>
                <option value="District Q" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District Q </option>
                <option value="District S" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>District S </option>
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                <option value="D 524" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 524</option>
                <option value="D 525" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 525</option>
                <option value="D 530" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 530</option>
                <option value="D 531" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 531</option>
                <option value="D 536" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 536</option>
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                <option value="D 581" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 581</option>
                <option value="D 583" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 583</option>
                <option value="D 597" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 597</option>
                <option value="D 598" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 598</option>
                <option value="D 599" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 599</option>
                <option value="D 628" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 628</option>
                <option value="D 686" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 686</option>
                <option value="D 698" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 698</option>
                <option value="D 848" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 848</option>
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                <option value="D 870" <cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>>D 870</option>
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i dont know where i am making mistake and i observered one behavoir that if i have less options it is working but not with many why like that , please help me in this
Thanks

Seems to me your conditionals should look something like this:
<option value="Division"<cfif getData.council is "Division"> selected="selected"</cfif>>Division</option>
<option value="Facility"<cfif getData.council is "Facility"> selected="selected"</cfif>>Facility</option>
Your condition is the same for every option, and would likely never evaluate to true:
<cfif council IS "#getdata.council#"> selected</cfif>
getData.council will be "Division" or "Facility" or "District D" or ...
... but it would never be "council".
HTH.
Charlie

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