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Is it possible to have a specific drop-down menu item appear?

  1. I have a site for a foundation running courses, and I have all the courses listed in a signup form.

    Is it possible to have a specific course pre-selected, depending on the page that it came from, for example, if the course 'Shamanic Drumming' was selected, that would already be selected on the form. Maybe through a specific link?

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 13, 2011 | Permalink
  2. Yes it's possible, but you'd have to do it through a specific link.

    - Edit Form
    - Edit the Drop down field
    - Select Advanced tab
    - Select allow field to be populated dynamically
    - Give it a parameter name of "course" (without the quotes)
    - Save the form

    Now when you link to the page containing the form if you pass ?course=XXXX in the query string and pass the full name of the course in the link it will pre-select that value in the drop down.

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 13, 2011 | Permalink
  3. hmm, I'm a bit upset with you all at Gravity. So much is provided, you keep me busy discovering :)

    Thanks for that, it'll make life much easier for those on the courses.

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 13, 2011 | Permalink
  4. Just had a thought on this. By using it this way, will the text in the dropdown menu still be able to have spaces in the course names?

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 13, 2011 | Permalink
  5. Hi Bawta,

    Yup, just make sure you set up the name (or value) of the drop down options to use spaces and they will be preserved.

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 13, 2011 | Permalink
  6. ignore this, placed it on the main forum

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 20, 2011 | Permalink