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I haven’t been able to find an example of using Safecracker with a multiselect field that works for me.

The following code…

{exp:safecracker channel="reservations" error_handling="inline"}

        {services_requested}
            <label for="services_requested">Services Requested:</label>
            <select name="services_requested" id="services_requested" size="4" multiple="multiple">
                    {select_options}
            </select>
        {/services_requested}

    {/exp:safecracker}

throws the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function parse_type() on a non-object in D:\Sites\expressionengine.chasin-tails.ca\www\system\expressionengine\fieldtypes\multi_select\ft.multi_select.php on line 140

My services_requested field is a standard EE Multi Select field.  Anyone have any idea what might be happening?  This is the syntax of the only Multi Select example I could find.

Thanks!

Hmm, the syntax mentioned in the docs at http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/safecracker/index.html#form-inputs is quite different:

<select name="my_field_name" id="my_field_name">
        {options:my_field_name}
                <option value="{option_value}"{selected}>{option_name}</option>
        {/options:my_field_name}
</select>

Maybe double-check?

Well, that works, but it isn’t a multi-select, it’s a single select drop down.  The example I was going by is here: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/safecracker/examples.html

And never mind.  Once I added the “multiple” attribute, it was all good.  Thanks for getting me on the right track.

I cannot get this to work in my safecracker publish form.
my custom field is {connection}
but my template is not parsing this field.  It shows this in the browser:

{options:connection}{option_name} {/options:connection}

On another note can I get a series of checkboxes in my form using a custom field multi-select?

<INPUT NAME="options" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="o1">
  Option 1

<INPUT NAME="options" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="o2">
  Option 2

<INPUT NAME="options" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="o3">
  Option 3

<INPUT NAME="options" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="o4">
  Option 4

<INPUT NAME="options" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="o5">
  Option 5

<INPUT NAME="options" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="o6">
  Option 6