>Greetings,
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>So far I've been using drop down lists for user's to make choices from definition tables. The incremental search feature sure is nice.
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>Now I have a situation where I want the user to easily add a value to both the list and underlying source table. If I use a combo, I can detect a new value and add it, but the incremental search feature, for existing values is lost.
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>What are the ways that people handle this?
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>TIA for any input...J

FWIW, incremental search is not lost in a combo, you just have to drop the list down before it works- when the user types in and the list is dropped, it selects rather than types.