Creating Lookup Fields in a Web Database

If you’ve been following along in this chapter, creating the Vendors web table in your Restaurant Database, you’ll remember we are still missing one more field found in the tblVendors web table in the Back Office Software System sample web database on the companion CD—the State field. If you open the tblVendors web table in the BOSSDataCopy.accdb database in Datasheet view and tab to the State field, you’ll notice that Access displays a drop-down list of states, as shown in Figure 6-43.

The State field in the tblVendors web table is a Lookup Field that displays a list of state abbreviations.

Figure 6-43. The State field in the tblVendors web table is a Lookup Field that displays a list of state abbreviations.

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