Select Field Element

The Select Field Element adds a dropdown list to a Tirenoa Form. The visitor opens the list and picks an answer, for example a country, a product group or the department that should receive the request. The visitor can only choose from the answers you prepared, so the entries stay consistent and easy to sort.

A dropdown keeps long lists compact, so the form stays short even with dozens of choices. Switch on Multiselect and the field becomes an open list box in which the visitor can select several entries at once. All chosen entries are sent together as one answer.

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Open your form under Tirenoa > Forms and add the Select Field Element. Enter a Field Label and a Field Name in lowercase letters, digits, dashes or underscores; the name identifies the answer in the form entries and in the notification email. Decide on Multiselect, then add the entries under Options. Each option has a label and an optional value; without a value, the label itself is submitted. Tick the checkbox of an option to preselect it.

For a single-choice dropdown, Placeholder Text adds a first entry such as “Please choose” that cannot be selected, so the visitor has to make a real choice; it is not shown when Multiselect is on. Input Field Icon places an icon in front of the field, and Tooltip Text adds a question-mark icon with a hint next to the label. Colors, borders and the label position come from the form’s appearance settings.

Turn on Required Field when an answer is needed; the label gets an asterisk and Empty Input Notice sets the message shown when nothing is chosen. The selected value is stored in the form entries under the field’s label; several selected values are joined with a vertical bar. Use the field name in square brackets in the notification email, for example [department]. Autocomplete Tokens lets browsers fill the field from saved data, such as Country Name for a list of country names, and Conditional Logic on the Conditionals tab shows or hides the field based on other answers.

The tables below list every option of the element, grouped by the tabs you see when you edit it in the Builder. Many options depend on others, so the edit screen only shows the options that apply to your current choices.

• Combine Required Field with a Placeholder Text. Without a placeholder the first option is selected from the start, so the field always counts as answered.
• Multiselect is hard to use for many visitors, who do not know they must hold a key to pick several entries. For a handful of choices, a Checkbox Field is easier.
• Use option values for anything you process further, such as a short code per department, and keep the visible label readable.
• A multiselect list shows up to about five entries at once and scrolls after that.
• If you add no options, the field is not shown at all.

• Radio Field Element – all choices visible at once, one answer
• Checkbox Field Element – several answers with visible boxes
• Image Select Field Element – choices shown as images
• Tirenoa Form Element – places the finished form on a page