I’m currently trying to build a front-end form for an Intranet that contains a file upload field, a dropdown select list of categories, and a submit button. The idea is for employees to be able to upload a resource (such as a Word doc or a PDF file) into a particular subcategory.

The file will then be available for download in the correlating category of the intranet.

I’ve gotten the file upload function working by using Freeform, but when I try to dynamically insert category lists into a ‘select’ field, Freeform appears to strip them out. If I use a basic <form> tag, the subcategory lists work perfectly.

Here is the code I am using to pull the subcategory lists:

Basically, this spits out a list of subcategories like this:

But when I try to use Freeform to create the interface with EE, it just displays

Any suggestions/ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks so much!

Managed to solve this myself - had to create a template which dynamically called the subcategory lists into the dropdown. Works well now.

Alexm,

I’m sorry that Freeform has this little inconvenience built in, but you did find the workaround. Embedding a template into Freeform gives you a lot of power.

mk