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RE: How Can I Set The Initial Search Value of a ComboBox in a Browse Dailog?

Edhy Rijo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:48:30 GMT

Hi Lastcanary,

This process should be pretty simple and straight forward. :hehe:
You have to set the value based on the value type expected by the key field used in the combobox. If that does not work, then provide the following info:

What is the type of the value you want to setup up, Sttring, Int, etc?
Paste the whole InitializeSearchFields code so we can see what are you doing.

How Can I Set The Initial Search Value of a ComboBox in a Browse Dailog?

lastcanary — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:48:30 GMT

I have added a combobox to my search fields in a browse dialog. I am filling the combobox from a database that contains string data. I tried to modify the Initial Search Value of the combobox so that when the browse dialog is loaded it will only display the records with the given Initial Search Value. I am getting error about the "Input string was not in a correct format" when I try to run the application.

Could you please help me to initialize the combobox Search Field on a browse dialog?

RE: How Can I Set The Initial Search Value of a ComboBox in a Browse Dailog?

lastcanary — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:16:36 GMT

When I set a combo field to a string value I am getting:

"Input string was not in a correct format"

Lets think that I have a table

1-Person
2-Company
3-Cooperation

When I set initial value to "Person" I am getting "Input string was not in a correct format" error, how can I handle this?

RE: How Can I Set The Initial Search Value of a ComboBox in a Browse Dailog?

Edhy Rijo — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:44:53 GMT

Hi Lastcanary,

[quote][b]lastcanary (1/20/2012)[/b][hr]Should I have to use enumerations to set the initial value of a combobox in Browse Dialog?

Can I use the value in the Business Object to set the initial value of a combobox?[/quote]

You can use any value you want. In my sample I happen to use an enumeration for the "Transaction Type" field value and it is easier for me in code to work with the enumeration for these values.

RE: How Can I Set The Initial Search Value of a ComboBox in a Browse Dailog?

lastcanary — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:54:43 GMT

Should I have to use enumerations to set the initial value of a combobox in Browse Dialog?

Can I use the value in the Business Object to set the initial value of a combobox?

RE: How Can I Set The Initial Search Value of a ComboBox in a Browse Dailog?

Edhy Rijo — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:33:32 GMT

Hi,

You have to add the value in the InitializeSearchFields event. Here is a sample code from one of my browse dialogs where I am setting the TransactionType field value.
[code]Private Sub FirstUseImportBrowseDialog_InitializeSearchFields(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.InitializeSearchFields
Me.SearchFields("TransactionType").InitialValue = Enumerations.TransactionType.FirstUseImport
End Sub[/code]