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From: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can I make listbox within org-mode table?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:05:05 +0100
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To: David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>
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Hello David,

On 2014-01-08 11:35 David Belohrad wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> for one of my documents I'd like to have tables, where in a single
> column i can only choose from predefined sets of values (e.g. names). Is
> that possible?
>
> | Name  | Description | Price |
> |-------+-------------+-------|
> | David | foeiu       |   287 |
> | Mika  | ofi         |   287 |
> | David | froeiw      |   238 |
> |       |             |       |
>
>
> ^^^^^^ that column i'd like to fill with only specified items
>
> many thanks
>
> david
>
>

AFAIK this is not possible. At least not with facilities built into
org-mode. You might have luck writing a source for auto-complete, but
this might be more effort than it is worth.

If you are not planning to export your document, but merely want to
manage some data in a tableish fashion inside your Emacs/Org setup, you
may find (info "(Org) Column View") of some help. You can define a
NAME_ALL property which lists the specific items.

HTH,
-- 
 Alexander Baier