Change Text Box to a Combo Box or Create a Combo Box

[luise.peralta (Luis Peralta)]

I got a field that is text box which I want to change to a combo box, the idea is that Job Code be a combo box, where the user select an option and be mandatory in case that you create an split from a job:

Any idea if this is possible?

Thank you,
LP

[bordway (Bruce Ordway)]

This link might give you some ideas…

ComboBox - UD Table or User Codes

Thanks Tim. I decided to use “User Codes” since there are only 6-8 Codes that will go in there, and will never change. So this is what I did. However, seems I am missing something. System Maintenance–>User Codes and create a Code Type and input my UD Codes. Go into UD Column Maintenance and create a UD Field for table Quotedtl. Go into Extended Properties and pull up Quotedtl_UD From Extended Properties click on the column name and then Column–>Detail Sheet. Change the Linked Column to the …

[MLamkin (Marjorie Lamkin)]

If it’s a native Epicor field, you will have to hide it (turn visible off), make sure to make it no longer a tab stop and also hide the label. I usually then change the X value by adding 1000 to it so it’s off the screen, but I can put it back to where it used to be easily.
Then add the combobox and a label for it. Bind it to the same field. I’ve done that in a few spots in the system, it works out fairly well

[luise.peralta (Luis Peralta)]

Thank you