I'm using BrowseDialog in may forms in my application, of course the BrowseDialog is always used to find an specific record.

I have the idea of use BrowseDialog just to fill some fields in my form, not to recover a record.

I will try to describe the idea:

I have a form to contacts, is a normal maintenance form, it has a BrowseDialog for find contacts. Part of the information of contacts is State - City - Locality - Postal Code. Some we have a field for each value, I use combos to select the state, based on selected other combo is filled with the city in locality I can use another combo too. But as the Postal Codes table has the information of locality, city and state, I think users can select a postal code and the fields of locality, city and state can be filled.

The idea is use a BrowseDialog where users can search by postal code, state, or any other of the fields there, once the found the desired record, when go back to the form this will fill the text boxes according to their selection. Is this possible with BrowseDialog?

Waiting for your valuable comments.

Regards.

Everything is possible, just keep trying...

Here is a slightly simplified version of what we do:

We call the above method on the shared class whenever we want to get the details for a given zip code. A "ZipCodeItem" is returned, containing the details found there (AreaCode, City, State, ZipCode). As you can see, within the method we pull the zip code information into a temporary instance of our own ZipCode BO, but you could do the same with a straight SQL query if you would prefer and cut out that temporary BO all together.