Populate text boxes

I am trying to find some code that would allow me to populate text fields
Here is what I would like to do
If a user selects his name in a drop down I would like the rest of the text fields to be populated with his info such as address...phone..fax and so on.
Im not sure where to store this info that will need to populate the fields or how to code it being really new!
Thanks for any help!

Don't use Form default instances. I can't tell you how to get rid of them because I use custom default settings for my projects (_mytype="empty").
This means, search_contact probably points to the invisible default instance whereas you've shown an explicit instance that you've created using the new keyword. I don't know the application structure
so I can't tell what to change to make it work. It seems add_contact_getData should be part of the Form, then you can just delete "search_contact."
Armin

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