[ic] Select box with external table lookup in UI

[Stefan Hornburg Racke]

Ed LaFrance <edl@newmediaems.com> writes:

> Hi all -
> 
> 4.6.5 and 4.8.1: Just curious if anyone has been able to set up a select 
> box widget in the UI, so that it contains a list of unique values from an 
> external database?  For instance, setting up the category selector for 
> Items so that is displays every unique entry in the cat table (currently is 
> simply lists unique choices from the category column of the products table).
> 
> I have not been able to get it to work with any combination of simple 
> settings in the meta editor; It appears something more elaborate may be needed.

What do you mean with external database ? It is no problem to fill the
select box with values from another table.

Ciao
        Racke

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