On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:25:38 -0500,
Drew Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

> Sorry to say you didn't miss anything in your search.  Multiple column
> display in list is not supported.  You can display 1 field only if you
> want the display list to contain data from multiple columns then you
> must assemble the single text column in a query:

> SELECT "Col1" || ' ' || "Col2" AS "DisplayText", "ForeignKey" FROM...

> Which brings up another piece of info.

> The list or combo box always displays the first column, the data field
> in the target table gets the second column or higher.

> Of course you start counting at zero in programming and you should
> know that (lol), so in the property editor you set the bound column to
> 1 or higher.

> Now the above SQL sample is not going to be adequate for real use, you
> want to account for nulls, formatting, etc.

Thanks for the clear explanation! I'll think of how to construct a
proper statement to concatenate the relevant fields to deal with this.
Are there any plans to support multiple columns, instead of having to do
all this?

Cheers,

-- 
Seb


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