Custom Drop Down Creator
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Use with Matrix fields?
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Matt Crest
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| Posted: 21 March 2011 06:39 PM |
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Wondering if it’d be possible to use this to target drop downs within a Matrix field?
I tried this:
{exp:custom_drop_down field_name="matrix-field-name" separate_values="yes" initial_value_value="any" initial_value_option="Any"}
<option value="{drop-down-within-matrix}">{drop-down-within-matrix}</option>
{/exp:custom_drop_down}
Any thoughts?
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Mark Bowen Design
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| Posted: 22 March 2011 10:45 AM |
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Developer
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Hi Matt,
The plugin wasn’t coded to work with Matrix no, sorry. I’m really not sure if it will be possible to do what you’re after as if I’m understanding correctly then Matrix serializes all of its data and so there’s no way this would work with that.
The plugin was just created to work with the standard ExpressionEngine drop down fields I’m afraid.
Best wishes,
Mark
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Mark Bowen Design
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| Posted: 22 March 2011 10:56 AM |
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Hi Matt,
Taking a very quick look at the documentation for the P&T dropdown fieldpack it looks like you should be able to create these sorts of things out of the box. Did you try using the Pixel & Tonic template tags to get this working yet?
Best wishes,
Mark
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Seb
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| Posted: 30 March 2011 01:52 PM |
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Hey Matt,
I’ve got a very similar need. How did you solve this?
Seb
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Mark Bowen Design
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| Posted: 30 March 2011 02:07 PM |
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Hi Seb,
Just out of interest how did you get hold of this add-on as I only recently placed it on the site here and I don’t see a purchase from yourself for it?
Best wishes,
Mark
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Seb
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| Posted: 30 March 2011 04:45 PM |
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Hey Mark,
I don’t have a copy! I considered it. Then I saw Matt’s issue, which closely reflected my situation, and subsequently posted my question.
Plain ‘ol asking.
Seb
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Mark Bowen Design
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| Posted: 30 March 2011 04:50 PM |
# 6
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Ah okay. No problems. Just thought that you had the same ‘problem’, I see now it was just a ‘need’ so please accept my apologies for that.
Hope you get something sorted. Oh and if you’d like a free copy of the plugin for my mistake then just DM me on @markbowen with your e-mail address and I’ll get a copy sent over to you. :-)
Best wishes,
Mark
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Seb
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| Posted: 30 March 2011 05:05 PM |
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No worries. Thanks for the offer, v. kind of you. But I’ve found a workaround.
Cheers
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Mark Bowen Design
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| Posted: 31 March 2011 09:10 AM |
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Hi Matt / Seb,
Seb I don’t know what your workaround is but have you both seen the Field Builder add-on. I’m pretty sure that will allow you to do what you need here or at least something fairly close to it anyway.
Best wishes,
Mark
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Seb
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| Posted: 01 April 2011 05:48 AM |
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Dah ha! Great. Thanks for the heads up Mark. This looks like the ticket.
My work around was to create an entry with all the options selected, and then use that to turn all my former matrix P&T checkbox lists into multiselect dropdowns. It works a treat, but it just feels a bit *dirty*.
Thanks again,
Seb
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Mark Bowen Design
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| Posted: 01 April 2011 08:34 AM |
# 10
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Seb - 01 April 2011 08:48 AM Dah ha! Great. Thanks for the heads up Mark. This looks like the ticket.
My work around was to create an entry with all the options selected, and then use that to turn all my former matrix P&T checkbox lists into multiselect dropdowns. It works a treat, but it just feels a bit *dirty*.
Thanks again,
Seb
No problem. Glad you’ve got something working now.
Hope it all goes well for you.
Best wishes,
Mark
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