Hello Marc,
Thank you in advance for either fixing the issue or letting me know what I'm doing wrong.
Please see attachment for screen shots.
With the simple cascading dropdowns the expected and observed behavior is that each field auto-populates with the first 'filtered' selection available in the dropdown. When the user clicks down on the dropdown they are presented the filter choices to choose from. On mouse over, the appropriate filtered item is highlighted and the user simply clicks 'once' to select. I have 6 cascading dropdowns and this is the behavior I observed during development of my solution. During that time I only used a subset of the full data to populate the associated lists for testing.
I deleted all test entries in all lists and started populating the lists with actual data. The following is a count of the number of items in each list:
For our 'Projects' List the following fields are presented to allow the user to tell us what their project is for:
Dropdown 1: Line of Business list - 6 items
Dropdown 2: Branch list - 6 items
Dropdown 3: Core Process list - 20+ items
Dropdown 4: Sub Process list - 20+ items
Dropdown 5: Micro Process list - 20+ items
Dropdown 6: Primary Metric list - 20+ items
This solution allows us to easily track all the projects employees are working on to improve processes across the enterprise. In development, I only populated each list with ~10 items.
As I populated each of the 6 lists with the actual data, I ran into a problem. The following problem seems to only occur once I pass the threshold of 19 items in the associated list. This is regardless of the number of items which are filtered into the dropdown display. At 19 items, the cascade works as expected, at 20 and above the following happens:
When the New or Edit form for the 'Project' list loads, the field for the cascading dropdown with > 19 items in the lookup list is 'empty'...it is not preloaded with the first selection in the filtered dropdown list. For example, Line of Business is preloaded with "Broadline" and Branch is preloaded with "AZ" but Core Process is empty.
When I click on the dropdown arrow, the filtered selections are visible. However, mouse over does not highlight a choice to select. I must click once to highlight the item and then I must click the same item again in order to select and load it into the field.
I am using SPSerivces 2013-01.min with jQuery 1.8.2.min on SharePoint 2010.
Thank you again for any assistance. I think your work is outstanding and has enabled me to do some fantastic work for my company.
Best regards,
Jack
Thank you in advance for either fixing the issue or letting me know what I'm doing wrong.
Please see attachment for screen shots.
With the simple cascading dropdowns the expected and observed behavior is that each field auto-populates with the first 'filtered' selection available in the dropdown. When the user clicks down on the dropdown they are presented the filter choices to choose from. On mouse over, the appropriate filtered item is highlighted and the user simply clicks 'once' to select. I have 6 cascading dropdowns and this is the behavior I observed during development of my solution. During that time I only used a subset of the full data to populate the associated lists for testing.
I deleted all test entries in all lists and started populating the lists with actual data. The following is a count of the number of items in each list:
For our 'Projects' List the following fields are presented to allow the user to tell us what their project is for:
Dropdown 1: Line of Business list - 6 items
Dropdown 2: Branch list - 6 items
Dropdown 3: Core Process list - 20+ items
Dropdown 4: Sub Process list - 20+ items
Dropdown 5: Micro Process list - 20+ items
Dropdown 6: Primary Metric list - 20+ items
This solution allows us to easily track all the projects employees are working on to improve processes across the enterprise. In development, I only populated each list with ~10 items.
As I populated each of the 6 lists with the actual data, I ran into a problem. The following problem seems to only occur once I pass the threshold of 19 items in the associated list. This is regardless of the number of items which are filtered into the dropdown display. At 19 items, the cascade works as expected, at 20 and above the following happens:
When the New or Edit form for the 'Project' list loads, the field for the cascading dropdown with > 19 items in the lookup list is 'empty'...it is not preloaded with the first selection in the filtered dropdown list. For example, Line of Business is preloaded with "Broadline" and Branch is preloaded with "AZ" but Core Process is empty.
When I click on the dropdown arrow, the filtered selections are visible. However, mouse over does not highlight a choice to select. I must click once to highlight the item and then I must click the same item again in order to select and load it into the field.
I am using SPSerivces 2013-01.min with jQuery 1.8.2.min on SharePoint 2010.
Thank you again for any assistance. I think your work is outstanding and has enabled me to do some fantastic work for my company.
Best regards,
Jack