Using a fields drop down selection to populate 2nd fields drop dow

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FigoEMT

Hi, I've been searching over the forums for the past hour and I cant seem to
find what may help solve my problem, hopefully its not redundant:

Goal:
In a Query, have field 1, and its chosen value from its drop down list,
populate a second field next to it, and the 2nd fileds drop down list values.


Set up:
I have a table full of vendors names, and info.

I have a second table full of fields for invoice data, (i.e field 1 is a
drop down of vendors, field 2 is a drop down of PO's from a PO table, Field 3
is the invoice total, etc...) and all respective relationships are a
one-to-many cascading update this table for the Vendors and PO's.

I have a third table that shows all the Vendors, and their assigned PO's, in
two seperate fields, called the PO table (how original :) ). Only
Relationship to this table is from the Vendors Table, which is a one-to-many
cascade updates into the vendors field in this table, as i will update
vendors and add new ones, etc... PO field is entry only.

Now I have a query from the Invoice table.

If I choose Vendor C, in field 1 ("Vendors"), which is a drop down, I am
trying to get Field 2 "Associated PO" (also a drop down list of PO's from the
PO table) to only show the PO's from Vendor C, as that was the chosen in
Field 1. Kind of a quasi filter i guess.

Any Ideas? Do i have this all wrong? Thank you so much for taking the time
to read this!
 
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Conan Kelly

FigoEMT,

Off hand, I don't know for sure if this is possible in a query (maybe
someone else here know if/how to do that). But I know it can be done in a
form (if you are using forms). I have successfully set this up once, but it
has been a long time and I don't have it here at work.

If you are interested in going this route, let me dig up the DB at home and
review it and I can help you.

Let me know,

Conan
 

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