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Profile Field Multi select

Bruce

Posted: 13 September 2008 02:36 PM

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I am trying to pass multiple values to member profile field from edit profile.

<select multiple name="dog_breed" size="10">
   <option value="Pug">Pug
 <option value="spaniel">Spaniel
 <option value="poodle">Poodle
 <option value="Other">Other
  </select>

Any way to do this? I tried textarea and text but only saves last selection…
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Pie Man

Posted: 15 September 2008 08:41 AM

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You need to add [] to your code to allow Multiples

<select multiple name="dog_breed[]" size="10">
   <option value="Pug">Pug
   <option value="spaniel">Spaniel
   <option value="poodle">Poodle
   <option value="Other">Other
</select>

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Bruce

Posted: 15 September 2008 10:10 AM

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Thanks! As usual, a genius
Now I’ll push my luck, in edit can it show seleted ones from profile?

Thanks

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Posted: 15 September 2008 10:20 AM

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Certainly

This should work:

<select name="dog_breed[]" multiple="multiple" size="10">
   {select_dog_breed}
   <option value="{value}" {selected}>{value}</option>
   {/select_dog_breed}
</select>

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Bruce

Posted: 15 September 2008 10:32 AM

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hmmm that didn’t work,

I have a textarea in profile custom fields, should it be a dropdown? The first solution worked for putting the multiple values into profile field,
If dropdown will that work fror multiple?

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Posted: 15 September 2008 10:35 AM

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Bruce - 15 September 2008 10:32 AM
I have a textarea in profile custom fields, should it be a dropdown?

Yes

Bruce - 15 September 2008 10:32 AM
If dropdown will that work fror multiple?

I believe so

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Bruce

Posted: 15 September 2008 10:45 AM

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Best to try before asking sorry.

Actually, it seems there is a choice. Using this seems to retain the multiple selections in edit form when using a dropdown in profile custom fields, and they show those selected on the edit page.
In profile, as it is a dropdown, of course shows one only, and if one updates from admin member profile it saves the one.
If using the tag in an entry dog_breed, it shows the ones selected as well.

So it’s workable and as likely as we can get it , right? Unless one could add a new field type in the code for the module?

thank you very much!

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Posted: 15 September 2008 11:00 AM

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Bruce…

Fortunately, it’s already been done

http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38370/

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Bruce

Posted: 15 September 2008 11:17 AM

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That doesn’t seem to work with custom profile fields though?
I have it installed..

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Posted: 15 September 2008 11:30 AM

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Oh crap… what am I thinking…

Sorry… otherwise I’m not aware of any other solution.

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Bruce

Posted: 15 September 2008 11:38 AM

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I have a great idea---feature request! lol

Thanks for all the help, it is working now at least, and they can edit profile away from cp, but it would be nice to add that.

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