Custom form - select question type to update automatically

(Joy) #1

Hi,

 

On a few forms I have created, I use a select question type with a list of schools. This list gets updated regularly. Rather than updating each form that uses this list, is there a way to update the forms that use this list from one location?

 

Thanks

(Peter McLeod) #2

Hi

 

I think there was another question recently along the same lines... 

 

If you use a text field rather than a select in the form settings. Then use an asseting listing to dynamically generate the options. 

 

If you hardcode the select field in and use the name/assetid that corresponds to the text field in Matrix then it should work.

 

Depending of the specifics of the form (eg validation) you may want to add some javascript to control the front input and regex rules to control what can be save to the text field.

 

Thanks

Peter

(Bart Banda) #3

Yea, unfortunately there is no nice and easy way of doing this other than what Peter said. You can however link Form Sections between forms and just have your select field (and other global fields) in that, but you would have to customise each form output to place the select field in the right position each time and probably always customise the email formats. 

(Awilliams) #4

I have something similar that uses a MSSQL DB data source to create an asset listing which is then nested into the custom form. So it’s updated on the database rather than on the form.