In a project the customer has a dropdown field in one of his forms with over 80 options, and needs to add to them from time to time.Now the new options allways ends up at the bottom of the list, and there is no way of sorting the list. This means that the customer needs to remove all 80+ options and add them in again one by one in sorted order every time a new option is inserted.
Is there any plans for adding a sorting function into Contour for dropdown fields? (i.e. pushing up/down, sortorder field for each entry or plain drag-and-drop)?
If not, consider this a request for such functionality :)
The site for this customer runs on Umbraco 4.11.4 and Contour 3.0.6.
If you havethe option to upgradeyourContourversion forat leastversion3.0.10or later, you should havethe possibility ofsort on the options ina dropdownfield.
Quick question are you adding the value of the field one by one in the contour section ?
What other possible way of updating this drop down list is to make use of Prevalues under Contour section. So creating a new Prevalue Source using Get Values from Textfile.
Then from your contour form Choose Drop Down List > Additional Settings > Prevalue Type > Your Prevalue Type Created.
@Dennis, thank you for that info, we'll look into upgrading :)
@Fuji, thanks, but that option may be a bit too dificult for the Writer-level user at the customer who sets up and uses the form. Will look into it though. :)
Contour - dropdown field, sorting options
Hi,
In a project the customer has a dropdown field in one of his forms with over 80 options, and needs to add to them from time to time.Now the new options allways ends up at the bottom of the list, and there is no way of sorting the list. This means that the customer needs to remove all 80+ options and add them in again one by one in sorted order every time a new option is inserted.
Is there any plans for adding a sorting function into Contour for dropdown fields? (i.e. pushing up/down, sortorder field for each entry or plain drag-and-drop)?
If not, consider this a request for such functionality :)
The site for this customer runs on Umbraco 4.11.4 and Contour 3.0.6.
Regards
Frank Schjelderup
Hi Frank,
If you have the option to upgrade your Contour version for at least version 3.0.10 or later, you should have the possibility of sort on the options in a dropdown field.
Have a look on this post and see Tim´s answer.
http://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-pro/contour/29801-how-do-i-sort-the-values-in-a-drop-down-list
http://www.screenr.com/fN57 Video where Tim is showing the sort option.
Hope this helps,
/Dennis
Hi Frank,
Quick question are you adding the value of the field one by one in the contour section ?
What other possible way of updating this drop down list is to make use of Prevalues under Contour section. So creating a new Prevalue Source using Get Values from Textfile.
Then from your contour form Choose Drop Down List > Additional Settings > Prevalue Type > Your Prevalue Type Created.
//fuji
@Dennis, thanks for your input on this, i myself wasnt aware of this!! :P
@Dennis, thank you for that info, we'll look into upgrading :)
@Fuji, thanks, but that option may be a bit too dificult for the Writer-level user at the customer who sets up and uses the form. Will look into it though. :)
Okay Frank that sounds good to me.
If you don´t know where to find the information for upgrading Contour. It can be found here:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/umbraco-pro/contour/documentation/Installation/Upgrade
/Dennis
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