Re: Changing a drop down field to a data driven menu

2014-04-08 Thread SUBSCRIBE ARSLIST theReel
Hi James, You are correct. Complete egg on my face. I duplicated data from another field when I was testing and then got the two of the mixed up when I was reviewing. I will put it down to wishful thinking and rushed testing. Time to go home for the day. T

Re: Changing a drop down field to a data driven menu

2014-04-08 Thread James Smith
What are you saying. You deleted field1 and created field2 with field ID of field1 and still you can see the data of field1 in field2? That is not possible. If you delete a field, remedy will delete its corresponding column from the database.

Re: Changing a drop down field to a data driven menu

2014-04-08 Thread SUBSCRIBE ARSLIST theReel
Thanks Kiran, Thanks for the reply. I just ran a very quick test and found that if I: - Delete the Drop Down field - Create a new Character field with the same database ID - Save the form The new field still has all the data - without having to export / import the data. This would be great as

Re: Changing a drop down field to a data driven menu

2014-04-08 Thread Hullule, Kiran
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE ARSLIST theReel Sent: 08 April 2014 20:39 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Changing a drop down field to a data driven menu Hi Guys, I have a number of custom drop down menu fields on the CHG:Infrastructure Change form that I want to convert to

Changing a drop down field to a data driven menu

2014-04-08 Thread SUBSCRIBE ARSLIST theReel
Hi Guys, I have a number of custom drop down menu fields on the CHG:Infrastructure Change form that I want to convert to be data driven menus. They are changing regularly and this would allow much better control. The plan is to: Export field data and unique identifier to a arx file. Delete fie