• Data

    Allowing a user to add a non-listed value to a multi-value field

    I have used cbData for the Combo Box and MultiField for the field name in these examples. It is easy enough to allow a user to add a custom value to a single select Combo Box with a Data Card Update of so it simply uses the SeachText if entered and nothing is selected from it (or uses the selection as normal). But what about multi-select columns ? One fundamental issue here is that the SearchText is only accessible/visible when there are no other items selected, but we want to retain what is there presently and add the new item, so one compromise is the user needs to delete existing items that come up with the DefaultSelectedItems, but we can still retain…