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smart fill not the smartest option - Thunder Poet - Sep 1st, 2013
I am trying to understand why I set up fields, say checkboxes, with options. I save the options and do this with 3 fields that are either radio buttons or checklists.
But once the form is saved I am informed that these 3 fields are not associated with any Option Lists. And that I must go CREATE options lists now to associate with these 3 fields. WHY? What didn't I get three option lists the first time around at least named by their field names?
Why now do I have to do this all over again in a different function to get the form working?
Also, I read this "The Smart Fill feature works by entering the field name (the name="" attribute of the form field) and the URL of the page where it's stored. Then, the script attempts to parse the page and extract the list of field options. "
For lots of values where I need a dropdown on other forms I have a database lookup that pulls that data from a table by related field rows.
Why doesn't this program offer the first and smartest alternative, to pull data values from a simple table in the same database?
And, regarding the Smart fill feature, don't you have examples of the fastest method to read a flat text file instead of sifting through html?