>I have a data file of employees at multiple companies working for multiple locations in multiple departments. The data is normal with codes for the company/department/location and corresponding lookup tables.
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>The client wants a view screen where he can have a dropdown of company, location, and department, click into each and cut the query down (this is a screen used to find an employee when the hq person is unsure of where they work). Ive given him this product. He gets a query of everyone and when he selects a company the query is requeried and cut down to that company.
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>He now wants the second drop down box (location) to be cut down when the company is selected to only locations that actually have an employee in that company in the big query (which is a logical request they have many companies and hundreds of locations).
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>He likewise wants the third dropdown box cut when the location is selected to have just departments with an employee in them.
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>I figure I'm going to have to populate the dropdowns with queries and requery against the main cursor. Is that right? Any ideas?
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>TIA
>Chris

Chris,
That's how I would do it in VFP. Populate the first dropdown with company. Default the selection to the first item and use it to populate the Location cursor. Default the value again and use it to populate the Departments cursor.

In the InteractiveChange of the dropdowns, you will have to requery the appropriate dropdowns(s).

HTH.