[rt-users] Best way to make one custom field change, based on entry in another, using a many to one scenario

[Roger Lockerbie]

Kevin

Thanks for the heads up. I'll go an have a look. 

Regards

Roger

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On 19/07/2011, at 12:58 AM, "Kevin Falcone" <falcone at bestpractical.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:13:52PM +1000, Roger Lockerbie wrote:
>>   To set the scene, I'm after a user being able to set the newspaper masthead they work for via
>>   a  populated dropdown custom field, many mastheads may map to one database, and one terminal
>>   server so something like
>> 
>>   Masthead,Database
>>   Border Mail, RegionalDB
>>   Ballarat Courier, REgionalDB
>>   SMH, MetroDB
>>   TheAge, MetroDB
>>   Mercury, MetroDB
>> 
>>   CF1 would be where you select the masthead, CF2 would result in showing the associated
>>   Database.
>> 
>>   Note that there could be hundreds, and they may change regularly hence the desire to provide
>>   some sort of CRUD interface rather than hand coding it within a Scrip.
>> 
>>   Any suggestions/pointers would be gratefully received.
> 
> You may be able to do some of what you want with Linked customfields
> and/or external custom fields.  You should see the linking mechanism
> in the Admin UI when you have a select one custom field, and you can
> find external custom fields documentation in the docs directory.
> 
> -kevin
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