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@DBColumn and @DBLookup for all browsers using Ajax

Rishikesh Sahi
09.18.2005
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This generic code can be used to perform @DBColumn and @DBLookup using Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in all browsers. It's perfectly tested on Mozilla, Netscape and of course Internet Explorer. And it's easy to use without changing any line from the code.

Steps to use:

Make your first column categarized in view (which you wana use for dbcolumn and dblookup).
Assume you have to combo on form. So, call function Dbcolumn on OnLoad of the form:
When you select any option from combo1 then its respective value should come in second combo. So, call dblookup function on OnChange of first combo:

The last parameter in both functions is comboBox name object, which is on your form used to display options.

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If you run this script on a server using a fully qualified hostname (like http://www.myserver.com) as server it won't work and will create a security issue in both IE and Firefox, r...

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esulting in a Javascript security error.

To have it works with a fully qualified hostname, the two lines

must be changed to:

—Renaud T.

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To allow this function to lookup multi-value fields from views, simply change the following function from this: to this:

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