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TOPIC: How to handle 500 options (dropdown) in a form?

How to handle 500 options (dropdown) in a form? 11 years 4 months ago #25738

  • lking
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Hello,

I'm currently working on a project that I'm not very sure how do we handle 500 over options using the dropdown box. All 500 different options can't be grouped or reduced. So it takes me 18 seconds to load the form. I wonder if that is possible for us to split all these options based on category to multiple forms and display all of them on the same page while form loads but using one submission (submitting it to one form named RESULT and using this form (RESULT) to send an email to admin automatically)? Please suggest the easiest way to build this.

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How to handle 500 options (dropdown) in a form? 6 years 4 months ago #38643

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I would concider the following to achieve this and to clarify for user also:

Conditional Fields:
Make one main dropdown (always visible) with main categories
Make other dropdowns for sub categories.
In conditional Fields, makes rules, how the secondary dropdowns view by the selection of the first dropdown. I've used this and suppose it's quite fast to open the form.

You can get this further by splitting the form to multiple pages, selecting the main category in the first page, then the subselection in the second page.

These both above are Basic features of RSform Pro.

If You want to go even more pro, You can retrieve the values from database with a PHP-script and use the conditional Fields in them with some restrictions ofcause. You can set the conditional Fields only to static results from database - I was suprised that You can set the rules for external results also.
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