Form Designer: Advanced Combobox - Properties

An Advanced Combobox (master box) control is an add-on to a combo box. You can relate an advanced combo box both to a basic combo box or to another advanced combo box in the current form. Therefore, you can concatenate several dropdown lists and trace multiple relations, as shown in the following table:

Property

Description

System Category

 

ClassName

MasterBox

Name

Name, for example $MASTERBOX7

Base

 

IsLocked

Default = false

Specific Category

 

DetailControl

Name of the ComboBox control, for example FID_STREET

DetailAttributeName

Detail attribute with relation to master table (child_column_name),

for example FID_CITY

DetailFilter

 

FidButton

With the FidButton, you can select a feature in the map. Then, the record of the master table is selected with the FID of the selected feature and the dependent value of the record is selected in the list.

HighlightButton

True = show a highlight button

MasterAttributeName

Master attribute of the master table (parent_column_name), for example FID

MasterFilter

Filter: you can define a filter for the master box dropdown list.

MasterList

Display attributes: Shown in dropdown list of the master box, such as NAME

MasterOrderBy

Orderby. You can sort the items in the dropdown list.

MasterTable

Table from which you choose the pre-selection for the detail control (parent_table_name), for example LM_CITY.