So recently was asked to pull all the search words used on parts over the years and we found that there were a lot of unnecessary and misspelled entries into the search word field. This stemmed into an ask to make it a drop down list that we would manage from a User Code entry.
I am newer to this type of customization and am looking for some helpful advice / teaching in how to do this. Any help would be appreciated.
You will probably have to hide the existing built-in field for search word, and put an EpiCombo that you can bind to the search word field on Part. The Business Object will be UDCodes, and you’ll want to add a filter on the control for the CodeTypeID (whatever you use when you add the values to User Codes). I’ve usually found that with UserCodes, you have to change the default ListDataSet to RowsDataSet, no idea why it’s needed just for User Codes, I’ve never had to do it with anything else. (not sure about the spelling, I’m doing this from memory 
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I was thinking this is how it probably would have to be done. Id then have to adjust Part Tracker then as well wouldn’t I?
You shouldn’t need to touch the Tracker, it’ll still display what it should. You only want to limit what it can be changed to.
Yup you were right. Thank you for the tips and guidance. All went well.