Hello,

I have a drop down list (ddl) on a page that selects a city for a particularly user. The city selected comes from a different table (city) and the ID of that City is stored in the User Table. I can display the city no problems, my problem is how do I update the city, so that the ddl displays the city names, instead the City ID into the User table?

Thanks in Advance,
Mark

Can you post your code?

You will have to use a JOIN and send the city_names to the DDL.

I know this and have this done...as my cities display in the ddl fine. The problem is that I want to insert the ID of the city from the city table into the City field of the user table.

Please help.

Mark

Is the ID of the city in the 'value' field of the DDL?

The dropdown list exposes a SelectedItem and SelectedValue property, so for the value, use SelectedValue, for the text use SelectedItem.Text.

Brian

Thanks for the repies guys. The thing is:
The value property is the list value...my ID is a autonumber from the City Table in the Database.
Please correct me if I am wrong!!
For ex:
 DDL Value Database ID Database TEXT
   1 1 New York
   2 5 St. Thomas
   3 6 St. John's
   4 7 Halifax
   5 10 Calgary
   6 11 Somewhere else

Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Mark

Try something like:

myDDL.DataTextField = "city_names"
myDDL.DataValueField = "city_id"

Hey,

Do you need both sets of numbers? If so, you could append them together and use split to separate them. Of course, you have to programmably add each item to the dropdownlist that way.

Brian

No I do not need both Numbers. All I need is the value/number to be added to the User table in the City field and the actual name of the city show in the ddl for the user to see. For ex:
The Database user picks <Calgary> from the DDL, for the user JIM. the database adds the ID of Calgary (which is 23) to the city field in the user table. So In Jim's record the city field is 23.

Thanks,
Mark