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I need to have a custom field for entries in a weblog that designates its “state” as in US territory.  One entry can have multiple states. 

How would I create a field with 50 checkboxes for the states.  Has anyone done this before?  Is there a perfered method so coding a dropdown select box would be done easily?

Thanks for your help!

The only way I can think of doing this is to use categories for the states - this would allow you to pick multiple ones

I could think of a couple of ways if you only needed one state (as in, say, an address), but if you need multiple, I think categories are the best solution.

Thanks bluedreamer.  That would probably work in most intances.  In this case I have top level categories already assigned.

Ingmar.  How would you do it if it were one entry = one state?

I think a custom field {state} should work, together with the weblog search= prameter, eg. Even if you are using categories for other purposes, you could still use them for states, though; you can assign an entry to many categoies, after all.