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<div>Ok, I need to have 3 dropdowns, each containing the same list of items (say Transport, Fuel, Food)</div><div>Then I need to be able to assign a value to each of them.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Now let's say I have an input form that will be filled in each day, and on day 1, I select: </div><div>Transport = 200 km</div><div>Fuel = $20</div><div>Food = $5</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Then on Day 2, I select:</div><div><div>Transport = 300 km</div><div>Fuel = $30</div><div>Food = $7</div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Now, this is what I need it for. I want a View of my total daily activities to display in the following way:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> Chargeables <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div> 500km Transport <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div> $50 Fuel</div><div> $12 Food</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>In other words, in classic database structure, I'd have a link (or 'hamburger') table containing foreign keys to the Items table and the value (price) per item per day.</div><div>Does that make sense? </div><div><br></div><div>Basically, I'm struggling to figure out how to get the data into the system in that way so that it can be output in the way I need it.</div><div>Unless there's another way to do it in Drupal?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On 31 Jan 2008, at 10:53 PM, John Fiala wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 1/30/08, Graeme McKibbin <<a href="mailto:gmckibbin@iburst.co.za">gmckibbin@iburst.co.za</a>> wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Does anybody know how to create the equivalent of a many-to-many</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">relationship?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ie: On an input form, say I have a dropdown with 5 items in it. I want the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">user to be able to select one, and then input an integer value that would be</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">associated with the selected item.</div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What's the intention of the many-to-many relationship?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Why are you</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">associating the value?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's a little hard to say what would be the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">best way to handle this without knowing what you're doing in a little</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">more detail.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John Fiala</div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kind Regards</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Graeme McKibbin</div><div>Software Developer</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>T. 011 704 6415</div><div>C. 082 921 3447</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>