Cannot "null" a dropdown from a predefined values

As reported many times here, you cannot have an empty value in a drop down created from a predefined values table.

http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/?action=goto&my_threads=1#topic/Drop-Down-Menu-Select-It.htm

This simultaneously screws up both the join form - because whatever is at the top will be entered as the value; and it screws up the searches, because you can only have one drop down in a search - otherwise it will take the default value of one of them - the top value.  There is no way to "null" it in either place.

For some reason we have had difficulty getting Boonex to accept or understand this issue - I even heard a developer call this "a feature".  This is strange, because it worked perfectly well in D6.   I believe there is a ticket for this for 7.1, but this should be fixed before this.  In fact, this is a critical but and D7 probably should not have been released without this working.

Rob

Hi Rob,

Do you or anyone else know if this is going to be sorted anytime soon.

Really how can you make a dating site without ''null'' dropdowns

Thanks

Chris

I haven't tested with D7.01 yet, and I am going to cry if they didn't fix it.  They probably didn't.  I don't think they care.

My comment on this on the Boonex 7.0.2 post was censored (it was polite), as was a detailed blog post I wrote - plus the Trac on this was incorrectly closed.    I have not installed 7.0.2 yet but I am assuming this has not been fixed - otherwise they would have just said so, rather than deleting my comment.  Does anyone know for sure?  I honestly believe almost everyone will come across this issue eventually.  Problems with the join form and search functions are central.