Bonnie,
I have not even thought about dropdown (you mean like a combo box). I thought that dropdowns should not have more than like 10 items. I wonder if there is a practical limit of how many items the dropdown could have before it becomes too slow to open. I anticipate that the lookup list will have up to 100 items/records.
I will have to try it.
Thank you for your suggestion.
>Dmitry,
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>How about using a dropdown list instead of a grid?
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>~~Bonnie
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>>What is the "accepted" way of doing a lookup in WebForms?
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>>For example, in a Web Form for creating invoice, you have to enter/select the vendor. In Windows application this is done by a lookup button next to the Vendor textbox and a pop up of vendor table grid in a separate window.
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>>In a web form this would require a new webform with vendor table DataGrid to be displayed, where user can select a vendor and return to the Invoice web form.
>>But it takes time to load a new web form on every vendor selection.
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>>Any suggestions? Any white papers or examples I can download showing "more efficient" ways of doing look up in web forms.
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>>TIA.
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