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Anyone know how I can display more than one instance of a particular lookup field in the Detail View?

I have a very large table (180+ fields) so rather than have to constantly scroll down for the Detail View, the data fields are displayed in tables within a tabbed format (using Bootstrap's tables/tabs).

I would like to display a "Lookup Field" in more than one location on the Detail View, so the input be can seen on several of the tabs (for reference purposes only). Only the first instance of the lookup field needs to be editable. Any other instance can/should be readonly.

In previous versions of Appgini (prior to V5.10 I think?) this was a very simple matter of adding <%%COMBOTEXT(fieldname)%%> instead of the generated <%%COMBO(fieldname)%%>. The result was a readonly text output of the lookup field. Perfect for my requirements!

I'm now using Appgini V5.23. Sadly, looks like <%%COMBOTEXT(fieldname)%%> is no longer supported post Appgini V5.10. Lookup fields can apparently only be displayed once in the Detail View. Everything I've tried so far just ends up in a blank field.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

This issue is indeed a bug that we have on our backlog for fixing in future releases. Please accept my deep apologies for any inconvenience caused by this issue.

Thanks for the reply Ahmad. No temporary workaround available that you can think of? Quick and dirty is OK by me. Thanks.

Didn't get to check it yet, but if I find a quick fix, I'll post it here.

Any update on this one?

<%%COMBOTEXT(fieldname)%%> was fixed in 5.30 .. Did you give it a try?