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Good Morning,

Is there a way to have a user choose more than one item in a menu / list?

Thanks

Julie


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On 9 Nov 2012, at 15:48, Julie Maxwell email@hidden wrote:

Is there a way to have a user choose more than one item in a menu / list?

Hi Julie,

There’s a checkbox labeled Multiple in the Output settings of the Inspector (with a Menu/List selected). If you check that, the user can then hold Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) to select multiple options.

Hope this helps,

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Thanks!
Thats what I thought - but then when I saw mult listings in the screen I wasnt sure…

Julie

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Is there a way to have a user choose more than one item in a menu / list?

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Yes, but it’s rare as hen’s teeth, so people aren’t used to interacting with it, so people don’t use it. It’s a vicious cycle. (Actually, the case could be made that it’s badly designed/implemented in browsers, so people don’t use it – neither designers nor users.)

If you want to add this to your page, you need to first make the size of the picker large enough to show a scroll bar, so at least 3 or 4 (default is 1). Next, you need to check the Multiple checkbox in the Output pane of the Inspector. Finally, you MUST add empty square brackets at the end of the Name attribute (third tab of the Inspector, like this:

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You’ll also want to put some coach-text near the field, explaining that users can use the Control or Command key to select multiple options or to deselect options they don’t want to include.

Personally, I would replace this with a field of checkboxes. Name all of the checkboxes with empty square brackets at the end of the name, just as you would with the picker. Then make the value of each checkbox the value you want to set. That will give you the exact same input at your form handler as the multi select.

Here’s an example page, showing the two side-by-side. Submit the form to send it to the Reflector so you can see how the server will interpret it.

http://scripty.walterdavisstudio.com/multi-select.html

Walter

On Nov 9, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Julie Maxwell wrote:

Good Morning,

Is there a way to have a user choose more than one item in a menu / list?

Thanks

Julie


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