Less is More – Using User Defined Conversions

We are filing this under “things we thought everyone knew but apparently not!” While engaged in a recent project that had us upgrading an application from OpenInsight 8.0.1 to OpenInsight 9.4.0, we came across a curious technique that allowed end users to see meaningful information in the form but the underlying data was a single letter code. To control the available options, the original developer used a drop down list style combo box control, e.g.:
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