I need to set up a notes name field to look up the address book for all choices. Easy enough, but I also need to rprevent any non-name text from being entered into the field. The way I did this before was through a display field and a button that pulls up the NAB in a picklist, but this method doesn’t inherit names that are already in the field into the picklist. Is there a way to have a names field on the form and keep the user from entering any text string into the field?
Wouldn’t you go to the Field Properties, second tab, and make sure to DEselect “allow values not in list”. Then, they can only use values in the list (lookup).
Or, if you don’t want them to be able to type at ALL:
Make the field computed.
Add a button with an @dblookup into an address list, then write the selected value(s) into the field, and refresh.
Thanks for your response, but the checkbox is already de-selected. Users are still able to type strings into the field.
And I already have a similar setup to the one you describe, but my problem is, when a value is already in the field and a user clicks the button to edit, it doesn’t pull over the pre-populated value into the NAB picklist. If there was a way to pull this value in from the names field, that would solve my problem.