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I have a weblog which serves the purpose of just supplying drop down lists.
One of those lists happens to be a list of US States, which is one of the simple ones and unlikely to change. I use this one here as example only.

I have multiple blogs where I need to select a us state and would like to avoid to hard code them each with its own drop-down list in each weblog that needs it.

I thought that is what Populate the menu from another custom field is for.

I went and created a ‘Populate the menu from another custom field’ field and selected the state list drop down from the other blog, and hit ok.The problem appears when go to the Publish screen of the weblog for which I defined the ‘Populate the menu from another custom field’, I get a dropdown list element and all I get to select is: ‘—’. I am completely missing the state list drop down which shows up properly in the weblog the list is populated from.

Any ideas?

Thanks..

EE 1.7.0

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/custom-drop-down/

I hope this could be of any help. Also please mention the expression engine version and build.

Thank you very much for your reply.

The ExpressionEngine version was mentioned at the bottom of my initial post: EE 1.7.0
The build is 20101018.

I don’t see the need of using another add-on when this should work fine with EE off the bat.

I pretty much had it with add-on’s after using Gypsy. Gypsy didn’t work with the search function, it crippled the EE upload function when there was only Gypsy custom fields defined for the channel/weblog. Also didn’t give an easy way to tell which gypsy field was assigned to a particular channel/weblog.

If it is a simple add-on like the clone add on, perfect but once it goes into custom field manipulation I have lost the trust in those to not break the site I am working on.

Again thanks for the speedy response ...

PixelGrinch, there is a states custom field group you can use with FieldFrame. I’ve used it successfully before. Might that be a solution for you? I’ve not used Gypsy before, so I’m not familiar with it.

Hi Sue,

thank you for the pointer I have looked at it and it works great, thanks.

PixelGrinch, there is a states custom field group you can use with FieldFrame. I’ve used it successfully before. Might that be a solution for you? I’ve not used Gypsy before, so I’m not familiar with it.

Hi PixelGrinch,

Good stuff. Glad that Sue was able to help. Please post back if required.

Cheers

Greg