I’m maintaining an app someone else created. In some places, there are Dialog Lists that show up just fine on the web, but in others, no matter how simple I make the Dialog List, it shows up as a regular text box on the web client. It “feels” like there’s some switch I need to flip or something… anyone have any ideas?
Subject: Dialog List Not Appearing on Web
There is no direct equivalent to Notes dialog lists in HTML, so the question is, what you expect it to look like. I assume, you are looking for a “select” element (drop-down box).
The only way I found to prevent a dialog list from being displayed as a select box is to tick the property “allow values not in list”, which does not work on the web.
Subject: RE: Dialog List Not Appearing on Web
That’s what I want, a select element. But I’m getting an input with type=“text” instead. I might have initially had it set as “allow values not in list” but I turned that off when it didn’t work–I was really curious to see how that would work if it did. I wonder if it has that stuck “allow values not in list” in its craw somehow.
Anyway, I decided to just build it myself using a second call to the server from body onload to get the values for the dropdown list because even in instances where I managed to get the select element to appear, it had no options; the option values are coming from a view.
Subject: RE: Dialog List Not Appearing on Web
I’d rather suspect a caching issue there.
However, the option to pull values from a view directly doesn’t work on the web as well. Populating the values onload is an option, but I suppose, that a cached @DbColumn to the view might perform better.