I have a drop down menu. Has product types. Product types have associated value (from drop down) values correspond to machine groups.

So each option should have three variables--Machine name, values, machine group.

I can get the Machine name and I can get the machine value (and display them in a different field)...what I have not been able to figure out is how to change the value into the Machine group.

jQuery('#MachineName').bind('change', function()
    {

      //get selected value from drop down;
        var selectedValue = jQuery("#MachineName").val();

      //populate a text field with the selected drop down value
        jQuery("#MachineValue").val(selectedValue);

What I would like to do is keep that MachineValue but then populate another text field with the sorted MachineGroup

I have been trying to run it through something like

    switch(jQuery(this).val()){
    case "236" : newVal = "8";
    break;

But I don't want to "change" the value I just want to do an "if then" type filter, so maybe something like:

    '236' => "8", '237' => "5",

I just don't know how to properly say "assign the MachineGroup based on the MachineValue" (and then have it populate a different text field)

In the end I would have three fields. The drop down, the MachineValue and the MachineGroup. Drop down and value are done, I just need to do Group. (And I can sort Group based on MachineName...just not sure which would be easier)