Data From Entries “Display as Text”

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Hi. Having lots of fun playing around with your plugin.

One of the things I’m attempting is to fill out some fields based on entries in another form (based on what I learnt here). My question is:

Can I use as the input, not a dropdown, but rather a blank text field. The reason being, that the form being referenced has over 40,000 entried (!) and thats quite a dropdown right there! (Although it *does* work.)

Any ideas?

Update:

Attempted to solve this via this filter. I ran into trouble because the dropdown values do not equal the name.

Can this be done?

No, this isn't yet an option. You can vote for it here:
http://formidablepro.com/help-desk/new-display-as-type-for-data-from-entries-field/

Is there a filter that can intercept it, and change it from "WHERE `id` = x" to "WHERE `name` = x"?

Intercept what? I'm not sure what you're referring to.

Well, right now it seems it goes something like this:

1) Enter Country value
2) x = Country.id
3) Get states where country.id = x

That works as a  text field only so long as the value (name) and id are the same. Here, being that they are not, can I filter thsi to do thus:

1) Enter Country value
2) x = Country.value (name)
3) Get states where country.value (name) = x

Possible?

I don't think there's an easy way of changing that without making a bunch of changes to the core plugin, or writing your own AJAX function.

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