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11. Managing Value Lists

Mark Conway Munro

(1)Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

A value list is a carriage-return delimited group of unique text values that can be assigned to layout objects to give users a fast and reliable method of entering standard or frequently used information into a field in a consistent and error-free manner. With only one exception, value lists are essentially context insensitive so a list can be generated from any table occurrence regardless of the current layout context.

Lists can be defined to contain static, predefined values or values dynamically compiled from the contents of a field gathered directly from a ...

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