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Pre-populating a drop-down with other drop-downs on the current form

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  1. raymondmckeown
    Member

    I have a more complex form currently built, but for the purpose of this support query I have created a much smaller example to see if it will work.

    On a form (http://www.moygac.com/testform) I have got 3 different drop-down fields, currently set as football teams. What I essentially want to do is populate the options for a fourth drop-down field with whatever selections have been made in the first 3.

    For example, if I select as follows: Team1 Liverpool, Team2 Leeds, Team3 Barcelona
    I would like the options for the fourth drop-down (Final) to only be Liverpool, Leeds or Barcelona.

    I'm sorry if this comes across as a very simple question but I have been through the documentation and the previous support requests and I cannot see an example which explains it to me.

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday April 19, 2012 | Permalink

  2. Rob Harrell
    Member

    This is not something Gravity Forms is going to be able to do for you out of the box. You'd have to implement a customization, and unfortunately, the documentation for how to dynamically populate a drop down isn't going to help here because the drop down appears on the same form page. Which means, you'd have to do this using AJAX which would not be a simple customization.

    Could you just relabel your fields like:

    Favorite Team
    Second Favorite Team
    Third Favorite Team

    and just not have a fourth field. Or you could maybe have just a single input field in which they type it in? Just kicking around some potential alternatives.

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday April 19, 2012 | Permalink

  3. raymondmckeown
    Member

    Thank for the reply Rob - that was really just a simple example of a bigger project. In reality entrants to a competition have to pick 15 players from a list of 150, and then select a team captain from the 15 selected.

    If it cant be done it cant be done - definitely not the end of the world - just thought it would have been a nice feature to have.

    RMK

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday April 19, 2012 | Permalink