https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown Gravity Support Forums Topic: Problem with automatically populating dropdown en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:03:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-83658 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:35:25 +0000 Chris Hajer 83658@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Do you have a link to the page where we can see your form in action? Maybe embed it in two different pages, once with AJAX, once without, so we can see the difference. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-83551 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:32:36 +0000 Anonymous 83551@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This problem looks to be a bug when the form is set to use Ajax for submissions.</p> <p>With Ajax submissions disabled, the <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Dynamically_Populating_Drop_Down_Fields" rel="nofollow">dynamically populated drop-down fields</a> do not get wiped out during the form validate routine. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-82724 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:43:03 +0000 Anonymous 82724@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <blockquote><p>You will need to update the form property enableValues to true:</p></blockquote> <p>I'm having the same problem, using Gravity Forms v1.6.8.1 with WordPress 3.4.2 -- has anyone found a solution? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-35170 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:16:23 +0000 David Smith 35170@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Trisha,</p> <p>Would you mind sending me a WP and FTP login to your site. I've tested on my end and it is working with out issue. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-35012 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:18:12 +0000 Trisha 35012@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you David..... I added your suggestion, but the value is still being populated with the text, instead of being blank, as would be needed to trigger the validation. I deliberately did not put in a default value, only default text.</p> <p>So the question is, how can I modify the aforementioned code to have it *not* take the text and use it for the value? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-34970 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:00:54 +0000 David Smith 34970@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Trisha,</p> <p>You will need to update the form property <em>enableValues</em> to true:</p> <pre><code>[php] $form[&#39;enableValues&#39;] = true;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-automatically-populating-dropdown#post-34948 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:13:35 +0000 Trisha 34948@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I found the instructions here in the forum on how to <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/automatically-populate-a-dropdown-with-post-titles" rel="nofollow">Automatically populate a dropdown with post titles</a> and it works like a charm, does what I need....</p> <p>Except that it doesn't support validation if I make that text field (that gets replaced with the dropdown) a required field - the problem is in this line:<br /> <pre><code>11 //Adding initial blank value. 12 $items[] = array(&quot;text&quot; =&gt; &quot;&quot;, &quot;value&quot; =&gt; &quot;&quot;);</code></pre> <p>While I have entered the default text I want ("Please select your product"), and left the "value" =&gt; "" blank so that there should be no value (which should trigger an error on validation), the plugin still puts in the text as the value, negating the validation.</p> <p>What can I do to make sure that the value stays blank and that the field is validated? </p>