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ChrisTitchenal
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Feb 27, 2008, 7:13 AM
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Question, I know in listing and job manager you could make a field with multiple check boxes. I am trying to do that in CMS and I get an error message. The client wants to add listings in more than one category I figured check boxes would work but I can only make one.
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Chris
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Dave
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Feb 27, 2008, 10:28 AM
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Re: [ChrisTitchenal] multiple check boxes
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There's no multi-value fields yet. :( So the only way to do it is to create multiple fields: category1, category2, etc.
One way to have multiple category selections is to create a menu for "categories" and then a few dropdowns that load their values from that menu. Then you only have to update your categories in one place.
Would that work for you?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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ChrisTitchenal
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Feb 27, 2008, 10:42 AM
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Hi Dave thanks for replying to both of my questions.
So what you are saying is to do the same as in my other question about a category menu list.
"Create a new menu called category with these fields: num, title
Go to the category menu and add a few records, one for each category."
In the coupon menu will that be a drop down list filed that will contain the items from the category menu?
If so then I will just add more than one dropdown field say 3 so they can pick 3 categories the coupon will go in.
Now how will a search work then because category is a big part of how people are going to search the site if I have category1, category2, category3.
I am trying not to be confused, but for a guy who mainly does the artwork this is tricky
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Chris
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Feb 27, 2008, 10:47 AM
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That sounds exactly right to me.
The way you search multiple fields at once is instead of this:
category1_keyword=sports
you use this:
category1,category2,category3_keyword=sports
And the program automatically figures out the MySQL query and all the complicated stuff for you.
There's some more details in the docs here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/cmsbuilder/viewer_search.html
Hope that helps. If you still have troubles I can help you set it up. But give it a try first and let me know how it goes.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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