Double Click Category in a picklist

Just thought I would share with you a request for an existing R5/R8 (mid-migration) notes client app(discussion over whether it is a bug currently ongoing) from a customer whereby part of a process involves a picklist used to select a document. The view itself is categorised and their new requirement/complaint was that when double clicking on a category, it does the same as selecting the category and clicking OK (much the same as double clicking a document does). My solution will probably be to change it to an embedded view, & use the queryOpendocument event to do the further processing once the document is double clicked (I hope to have an OK button as well for continuity but I’ll look into that). I just wondered whether anyone else has had success in making a category in a picklist behave the same as in a normal view, rather than relying on the twisty to open the category?

David

Subject: Try two picklists

Hi David,

I was recently able to work around this problem by using two picklists. I prompt the user for the category in the first picklist, and in the second picklist the chosen value is used as the “category” parameter in the second picklist. This way, there’s no possibility for confusion.

Subject: no problem like that

I use UIworkspace.Picklistcollection( PICKLIST_CUSTOM … and I had no problems as yours desctribed. The Function is/was productive in R5, R6 and R8.5

Klaus