lookup –> picklist

I’ve had several clients “voice concerns” about Salesforce.com’s lookup functionality relative to user acceptance. Well, if you’re dealing with a relatively simple lookup table, you can override an object’s new/edit page with a Visualforce page and display the lookup field to the user as a picklist. In the [live Visualforce] example below, the user is [...]

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joe: Actually, it is a text field. I'm merely using the picklist to present the user a list of possible values....
Raj K: I have idea of instead of putting it in picklist format, just keep it as a text value and backend doing Ajax call to retrieve records for the user to select....
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NIraj Nayan: Grid page only renders the grid and the pagingtoolbar but no records...
Paulo Castro: BTW, after this first redirection the following request works fine and the JS execute perfectly....
Paulo Castro: Hi Joe, I did the same thing as you but it is not working. After login on SF Dev org and try to access the VF page for the very first time, SF redirects my request to another server (to validate m...
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Alex: This is a really nice solution to the lookup problem. One enhancement that might be important for lookups that could eventually contain larger datasets would be a limit on the query (say 50 or 100)...
arun pandey: where joe ,u have written see source at the bottom but their is nothing there ,pls help me i am feeling helpless pls .u have done a wonderful work but pls help by posting the solution of my problem...
joe: sorry for the delay, see source at the bottom of the post...