select dropdown Please select

hello,

I creat a lotof new profile fields and would like to have at first at all Drop Downs: "Please select ..."

How I can make this.

BR Salvatore

This should be automatic but it's not. Modzzz uses predefined values, but when I try it, I can't get it to work. 

I'm also listening, but you can read how to do it for the add albums part of the photos module here.

https://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/How-do-I-add-Please-Select-To-Add-Photos-form-.htm

For add albums and photo moduls I have see your post, but I need this for profile field (selct drop downws.).

The Country Gender and looking for have this value but not my onw created fileds. Here I need this.

The problem is when I make it mandentory, so I get no error that the field is not filled out.

Hello,

Have nobody any idea?

BR Salvatore

Most of these questions are answered by Leonid. He is either an employee of Boonex or he helps as a volunteer. Either way, he's a very busy man and it sometimes takes him several days to reply.

OK,

So we have to wait for him.

BR

Hello BR!

The selection of 0 and empty variant can be set for Predefined values. According to the chosen variant it may require to correct the block info codes like the method getBlockCode_Description from the templates/tmpl_***/scripts/BxTmplProfileView.php (parent was described in templates/base/scripts/BxBaseProfileView.php)

I have now tried a lot and I hope I have a solution:

In Predefined Values i create a list an on top I create a new entrie with 0 and lang key: _Please_Select_. Then

I create a new profil field choose in Generel Selector. In Advance I choose Select dropdown Box Create the Link like: #!haircolor and set the default value 0 mark it as mandantory , save all.

And now I get the field When I choose no value Please Select.

 Thank you!

Now that I know I was on the right track with predefined values, I'll have a try myself using Leonid's solution and prepare a tutorial.

I'm posting this in case someone wants to use list/array instead of pre-defined list:

1.  Create an array and put in the first empty value

              $aValues = array();

              $aValues[] = array('key' => '0', 'value' => '----');

2. Get your list of values and add to array

        $aGroups = $this->_oDb->getGroupsByUser(array('type' => 'extendable', 'owner_id' => $iOwnerId, 'full' => false));

           foreach($aGroups as $aGroup)  {

                $aValues[] = array('key' => $aGroup['id'], 'value' => ($aGroup['title']));

           }

3. Use your array in your form

            'type' => 'select',

           'name' => $sName,

               'caption' => $sTitle,

               'values' => $aValues,

               'checker' => array(

                'func' => 'avail',

                'error' => _t('_msg_incorrect_select')

            ),

            'db' => array(

                'pass' => 'Int'

            )