Thank you, Cathi.

>Dmitry,
>
>Hopefully this idea will work out for you. As far as finding the prior message, I keep a list of good tips so that I can use them in the UT Magazine article. The referenced message is one that I find useful to keep track of. I have recommended others to it in the past.
>
>The UT searching is also quite useful to find past postings. It has helped me find information by using key words that the posting needs to contain. Hope this helps.
>
>>Cathi,
>>Thank you very much for the suggestion and for the message with code. I will try it vs a dropdown, as Bonnie suggested.
>>If I may ask you something else. I am new to UT and was wondering, how did you get the message # for the subject? You can't possibly remember it all. Or maybe you can <g>.
>>
>>>Hi Dmitry,
>>>
>>>You can use a popup window to display the vendor information then have it populate the textbox on the main page. For an example of the code, see message #696352.
>>>
>>>>What is the "accepted" way of doing a lookup in WebForms?
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions? Any white papers or examples I can download showing "more efficient" ways of doing look up in web forms.
>>>>
>>>>TIA.