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Setting up a dropdown box in the content tab
16 June 2008 at 10:16pm
Hi, I want to have a select box on the Main tab (or on another seperate tab) so I can select from a fixed set of options. I can't seem to find anything that shows me what I need to do to add a select & pass it options. Any suggestions?
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Re: Setting up a dropdown box in the content tab
16 June 2008 at 11:03pm
You need to use a Dropdown Field. So you can do something like this (in your getCMSFields method).
/* Will save a value from this array into a 'FavColor' field in the DB */$options = array("Purple", "Green", "Blue", "Orange");
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new DropdownField("FavColor", "Favourite Color", $options));And / or try and use this method.
http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=dropdownfield -
Re: Setting up a dropdown box in the content tab
16 July 2008 at 1:39am
hey Willr, can we do multiple selections that way?
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Re: Setting up a dropdown box in the content tab
16 July 2008 at 11:31am
If you want to select more then 1 option in the dropdown at a time you have to use silverstripes TreeMultiSelectDropdown Field - http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=treemultiselectfield
I havent used this much - I preferred to use ComplexTableFields for the CMS etc but basically you will need to have a many-many join to whatevers in the dropdown and instead of passing the constructor an array as below (the $options bit) you need to pass it the Object of your many many join
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