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Hey there,

My client would like me to setup a select menu where they can edit the options. This is going to be used on a “How did you hear about us?” form question, and they would like to have access to changing the answers when needed.

Looking for pointers on how to approach this.
Thanks for your help!
easytheretiger

I would also like to hear how other EE users have done this.

I recently threw something together using a custom field to hold the options, and a modified version of the “list maker” plugin.
Instead of list items (<li>bla</li>) the plugin now generates options (<option value=“bla”>bla</option>).

The formatting for the custom field is set to “none”.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="training" limit="1" dynamic="off" entry_id="22" disable="category_fields|categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}

<select name="whatever">
{exp:list_maker_options}
{options_custom_field}
{/exp:list_maker_options}
</select>

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Since I didn’t write the plugin I won’t post it here, but if you want it just PM me.

EDIT: changed the code to include the <select> tag.

The only way I could think of doing this was by creating another weblog and custom field group:

<select>
<option value="">-- Please Select --</option>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="hearabout" orderby="andDesc" sort="asc" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
<option value="{ansValue}">{ansDesc}</option>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
<option value="Other">Other</option>
</select>

Works nicely.

EDIT: wrong therad, delete this. Thnx