Populating Drop Down Box

Question

I am working on a form for my company. I am trying to populate the drop down box list from entries in a previous text field. For example I have a text field that directs users to type in a list of items. I want these items to then automatically generate into a drop box field. I have researched and tried for days with no success. The closest I have come is setting the drop box value to the text field but all this does is copy the list exactly into the drop box visible field...it does not set the values as selectable options. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Gina,
Here is some sample code for using a ComboBox in a JSP from an EditCurrentRecord bean. This particular example uses a query, you can also populate combo boxes, list boxes, radio buttons and checkboxes from a static list. See the JavaDocs for the EditCurrentRecord bean.
<jsp:useBean id="RowEditor" class="oracle.jbo.html.databeans.EditCurrentRecord" scope="request">
<%
RowEditor.initialize(application, session , request, response, out, "wt_bc_WT_bcModule.WalkthroughEngineSlidesView");
RowEditor.setTargetUrl("WalkthroughEngineSlidesView_SubmitInsertForm.jsp");
RowEditor.createNewRow();
RowEditor.setReleaseApplicationResources(true);
RowEditor.useComboBox("Presname","select pres_name,pres_name from wt_info","PRES_NAME","PRES_NAME");
RowEditor.render();
%>
</jsp:useBean>
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