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Showing value for menulist instead of ID?

Thread began 12/19/2011 3:32 am by steelace396915 | Last modified 12/19/2011 2:56 pm by Ian S | 1046 views | 3 replies |

steelace396915

Showing value for menulist instead of ID?

Hi

Ive built a set of dataassit wizard pages. I have 2 tables in my database, one for items and one for itemstypes. In my items table I have a foreign key field (itemtypeID) linking the itemtype table with the main item tabel. So far so good.

On the wizard insertpage I have formatted the linked itemtypeID field to show a menulist of the values from the itemtype table. This works good and I can choose value (itemtype) and its inserted correctly in database. Its ID is inserted in the foreign key field (itemtypeID) in the items table.

On the Results and Details pages from the wizard I would like to show the value for that field instead of the ID!? How can I accomplish this? Probably very simple but I'm new to this!
Hope somebody has a simple explanation! ;=)

Regards,
Martin J.

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Ian S

Hi Martin,

You need to create a Dreamweaver recordset with a SQL Join so that you join the two tables together.

e.g.

SELECT
FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table2.idcolumn = table1.idcolumn

Then you can simply use the bindings and drag across the text value that is associated with the id for that record.

Cheers
Ian

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steelace396915

Thanks for answer Ian! I need some more help I think because I'm a real newbie to this!
I tried the SQL command you gave me and it almost works. The problem is that when I insert a new record and choose an option in the menulist it comes back with another option from the list in the results page!?

I have 1 main table named "media" and 1 table named "mediatype".

In the main table I have a bunch of fields including INT primary key field plus an INT field named "MediaAccessLevelsID" as foreign key field. In the mediatypes table I have 2 fields, 1 INT field (primary key) named "MediaTypeID" and 1 VARCHAR named "MediaTypeName".

I tried to create a recordset named rsJoin and the following SQL command:

SELECT *
FROM media INNER JOIN mediatype ON mediatype.MediaTypeID = media.MediaID

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Martin J

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Ian S

Hi Martin,

It sounds like you are pretty much there.

First thing I would always check is that the correct value you are expecting is being stored in the media table. If its not storing correctly then there is an issue with the way the insert page is working.

Then, what is your results page? Is it just displaying the record information or is it an 'edit' page.

If the wrong value is being retrieved is there any pattern to it (i.e. is it the same incorrect value or is it random?)

Cheers
Ian

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