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Configuring Selection View Attributes is illustrated with an example:

You have a selections of items for sales, as below:

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You also have a form view that allows you to edit these entries - this pops up when the Edit button is clicked:

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You need to assign a tax band to each item. You also have a set of tax bands configured:

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To help with this task, you will set up a selection list to populate the tax band and tax rate values for the sales items. To do this, open the configuration form for the form view, then open the configuration form for the view attribute TaxBand:

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Then open the list of attributes for the tax band view:

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From the list of attributes that pop up, drag the attribute BandDescription into the Selection View Attribute field, and tick the Show the dropdown button flag.

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Repeat the same process for the view attribute TaxRate, dragging the attribute BandRate from the view of tax bands into the Selection View Attribute field. This time, do not tick the Show the dropdown button flag.

The form view will now appear as:

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If you press the button next to the TaxBand field the list of tax bands will appear - you can select a row from this list by double-clicking it. This will populate the TaxBand and TaxRate fields for the sales item with the selected tax band details:

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Form Icons

The form provides the standard form icons.

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