Tricky - Highlight Listbox Pre-Loaded from Master Highlighted from Saved

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I have a reporting interface providing users with a multitude of reporting options and capabilities. One aspect involves utilizing the ability to allow users to save their settings on the interface due to the number of options provided. One of the aspects revolves around working with listboxes.

Each listbox is pre-loaded every time with a list of items from a master table pertaining to the listbox. The user selects their desired choices, saves*, etc...Once loading a setting, I'm looking to have the listbox pre-loaded (easy) but then auto highlighting the items selected or rather pulled from the user settings table (each listbox has own table for user saving of options). So, if a user selects items Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Falcon from a list of 100 choices, then those 4 items would be saved under that user setting, within the code table (user specific). When they load the setting back onto the user interface, it should pull the 100 choices and auto highlight the 4 items. Hopefully I've explained that properly.

*A user is able to save, save as, load settings, unload settings, etc...from the reporting interface. When a user saves settings, these settings are saved within the user settings tables. Each table varies depending on the nature of the values within the reporting interface. Listboxes have their own tables connected to the primary settings table.


Any ideas anyone? :rolleyes: :D
 
Perhaps a bit more info to help:

Basically, there is a settings listbox which users can view their own or view other users saved settings. Users can only manipulate (i.e: delete, save, etc...) their own savings, no one elses. Anyways...

The Reporting Interface offers many listboxes which are pre-loaded from a master table. Each listbox is obviously different and some is text and some numeric (primary key / bound column).

With that said, once users finish their choices, to ease the pain of havnig to do that all over again each time generating a report, the ability to save their choices, etc...is given, hence this thread being posted.

Saving and alll the other commands came out great, only problem is highlighting the saved items within the user settings table.


PREFERRED SOLUTION:
Pre-load the listbox with the master data then once a user loads a setting, the setting would highlight all the items contained within that setting on each listbox or a listbox at a time. Obviously, this solution would have to be universal.

Hopefully that helps a bit more. Been a bit of a tricky one here. Probably just thinking too much.

Any help would be GREAT!

:D :D :D :D :D
 
Anyone have any thoughts yet on this?
 
I don't know about highlighting them: I would have a text list (in a label.caption or textbox.value) that displays current selections, a button to bring up the form that allows reselection with validation based on current selections kept (a checkbox asking if you're keeping current values = update or insert selector). Highlighting a listbox isn't something I would do in web or desktop apps as I believe in a "cleaner" approach to UI design.

If you need help with something along those lines, there's plenty here. ^_^
 

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