Hi Naomi,

there is no built-in behavior which would give you what you want. You can subclass textbox_ in proctrls to have it do what you want. This would presumably involve adding a record to a lookup table, and refreshing the clookupalias attached to the textbox.

Hank

>Hi everybody,
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>We have one application based on VPM framework. Several of textboxes in the form use _textbox based class which allows validation of the entry.
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>If the user types something not in the list of the values associated with the control, the grid based list pops up to chose a value and the user can only cancel in order to keep the information the user typed.
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>The wanted behavior is this: when the user typed the user defined text it doesn't pull the drop down and instead just takes the description typed in?
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>I'm not exactly sure what should I do to allow the requested behavior and how exactly this validation works.
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>Thanks in advance.