For lookup control: need to pull in values from remote list as per a filtered list view there. How?

  • 18 December 2015
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I have a look up control in 'List A' that points to 'List B.' List B has a checkbox field called 'Active.' I only want items from List B to appear in the look-up control in List A IF their 'Active' box is checked. How can I do this in Nintex Forms? In another vendor's solution, one of the preference settings for such a cascading lookup situation was to select which list view in List B should supply values. So, I would create an 'Active' listview which would only display items where the 'Active' box is checked. This worked nicely. I haven't found anything similar in Nintex.

In the future, some of these values may become inactive, but we would want past items in List A to still retain such inactive values in the lookup control. Therefore, we cannot delete such items.

To put a spin on it, this lookup control would first be filtered by a preceding Lookup control based on another field in list B as supplied by List C. I already have this working. But, I need to introduce the 'Active' checkbox portion, too.

 

Any help would be appreciated.


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In the list view control for ListB, did you specify the View Name in the control settings in order to filter the list items by Active only?

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I assume you mean 'Source View', right? Does the desired list view URL (relative or absolute?) go there? When I select the 'Insert Reference' icon, nothing in the available choices seem appropriate.

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I've reviewed online help but can't find any specifics with regard to completing this field in the correct way to obtain the desired filtered list view values. Sorry...I'm a bit of a noob, here. blush.png

=======UPDATE========

I just reviewed this article List Lookup Filtering enhancement​, and it seems to indicate that all I do is manually enter the name of the desired list view, such as 'Active.' Correct?

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That's correct, you would add the View name in this field.

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Thanks...and now the only issue on my side to to upgrade the current version which allows that to work correctly.

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