Does anyone have a short, sweet how-to for Dynamic Drop-Downs?

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Last Post: October 22, 2010 (RSS)

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By Keltam2 - October 22, 2010

Hi there!

I have a client who would like to have a drop-down menu for states, and then the second drop-down menu would display counties for that state? (Similar to a set of Make / Model drop-downs) Nothing fancy (I think =) Is this effortlessly easy through CMS and I'm totally missing how to do it? Or does it take some back-end coding?

Thanks for the help in advance!
Kelly

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By Jason - October 22, 2010

Hi Kelly,

Are you wanting these lists displayed on the front end (website) or in the backend (CMS Builder)?

Either way, you'll need to create 2 sections. The first one would be for the state. All you'll need to store here is the name of the state. The second would be the county, where you'll store the name of the county and the state (the best way to do this would be with a drop down from the states section).

Hope this gets you started. Let me know if you have any more questions.

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By Chris - October 22, 2010

Hi Kelly,

Here's a walkthrough I wrote a while back for setting this up on the back-end:

[url http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=83755#83755]http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=83755#83755[/url]

I hope this helps!

All the best,
Chris