Display Checkboxes or Dropdown Lists in [pdb_list]

  • Resolved Hanno

    (@bsoftde)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    I have created some additional dropdown fields which should help to sort the participants into certain categories. The values of these dropdown fields (which are stored as simple text fields in the database) should be visible in an overall participants’ list, but it seems to me that only simple text fields (or numeric, or date fields) are offered as available fields at all.

    Maybe I have missed something, or is there any workaround that would allow to display each and every “displayable” database field, independent of the field type?

    Hope I made my problem clear enough … Thank you for your excellent work

    Hanno

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    The plugin handles lists as a way to display data. All fields that contain data can be displayed in a list of records. If you’ve defined a dropdown field, and have configured that field to be included in a list display (this is done on the Manage List Columns page) then for each record, the value of that field will be displayed in the list.

    Displaying the dropdown as an element that the user can interact with is normally done on a per-record basis, in either a signup form or a record edit form. This is why you won’t see a dropdown element in a list display.

    Now, if you have some other kind of functionality in mind where dropdown elements are displayed in a list, this is possible if you have the coding skills (using a custom template), but the plugin would not normally do this.

    Click this link for a detailed explanation of how you can configure Participants Database List Displays.

    Thread Starter Hanno

    (@bsoftde)

    ” If you’ve defined a dropdown field, and have configured that field to be included in a list display (this is done on the Manage List Columns page) then for each record, the value of that field will be displayed in the list. “

    Sorry to say you are wrong:
    Dropdown fields do not show up on the Manage List Columns page at all, so they cannot be included in the list display.

    Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    OK, I just tested this and it is working as expected, all defined fields are available to be selected on the Mange List Columns page.

    Maybe some specifics will help see what’s going on. Locate the field you’re having an issue with on the Manage Database Fields page. How is the field configured? What is the “form element” setting of the field?

    Thread Starter Hanno

    (@bsoftde)

    You are absolutely right, and I have to apologize.
    I now found out that the reason for the plugin’s misbehavior was a different plugin called ‘Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite’.
    I believe that two JS libraries were not compatible with each other. However, I fairly quickly found another plugin (‘User Submitted Posts’) that apparently does its job without causing any problems to PDB, so the problem is solved for me.

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