A Choice Combo is a drop-down list of items where the user can choose one item. The name of the item provides enough information for the user of the form to decide which item to choose. As an example, imagine that the person designing the form wants to provide a drop down to represent Alien Status of a Person. Curam has an AlienStatus codetable which has codes corresponding to the following descriptions:
The PDF form designer, creates a Choice Combo and sets the item text for each item in the drop down to the values above. To ensure that the code table description rather than the code table code gets sent to the form, the following configuration is required:
<section name="AlienPerson" type="multiple">
<field name="CitizenshipStatus" type="choice-combo"
codetable-class="AlienStatus"/>
</section>