How to create dropdown fields that store multiple selections.

  • Resolved muchemik

    (@muchemik)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the great plugin!

    As seen here, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwsjXIgnvj5jVlBENVNRb2xiZVk/view?usp=sharing, I would like for the participants to select data from a dropdown and be able to store them listed out.

    For example, language translation ability:

    Dropdown 1
    English
    French
    Portuguese
    …

    Dropdown 2
    Spanish
    Germany
    Chinese
    …

    I would like the participants to select and store, for example: English to Germany, French to Spanish English to Chinese, etc

    Thanks for the help!!!

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by muchemik.
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  • Plugin Author Roland Barker

    (@xnau)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    You would start by defining two dropdowns that have you list of languages: a “from language” dropdown and a “to language” dropdown. To get a layout like that, you’ll need to use a custom template so you can create the HTML needed to display the two fields side-by-side. These two articles provide the basics you’ll need to create your custom template.

    Using Participants Database Custom Templates

    Using the PDb_Template Class

    Thread Starter muchemik

    (@muchemik)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    My programming knowledge is limited to fully implement this. This is literally the only thing holding the launch of my client’s site. I tried to go manual and build a bunch of “from” and “to” dropdown sets but I just ended up having way too many fields. Clearly, that’s not going to work.

    What are my options to implement the custom template? Could I request your assistance, sir?

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