Drop Down

Summary
Common Settings
General Settings
Appearance Settings
Advanced Settings
Merge Tags
Usage
Modifiers
Calculations

Summary

The Drop Down field allows users to select one option from a list. It is available under the Standard Fields section within the form editor.

Drop Down field as displayed in the Field Library

Drop Down field as displayed in the Form Editor.

Important: If your choice labels contain any HTML or special characters such as ampersands, commas, pipes, hyphens or brackets of any type, you MUST enable the show values feature and give each choice a simple and unique value which does not contain any special characters. Failure to configure values could cause issues for features such as calculations, conditional logic, dynamic population, and validation.

The value for each choice must be unique in any case, even if you’re not using HTML or special characters for the choice labels.

Common Settings

This field uses only common field settings for the Advanced settings. For a description of each of the common field settings, refer to this article. Below you will find description of specialty settings that are particular to this field.

General Settings

Click the Edit Choices button under Choices to open the Edit Choices flyout.

Image showing the Multiple Choice field flyout options.

Setting	Description
Choices	Add Choices to this field. You can mark each choice as checked by default by using the checkbox that appears to the left of each choice. Add a new choice by clicking the PLUS (+) icon and delete a choice by clicking the DELETE (-) icon.
Clear default choices	Allows you to clear the choice set as default. Only available when a choice has been selected as the default choice.
Show Values	Checking this option will allow you to specify a value for each choice. Choice values are not displayed to the user viewing the form but are accessible to administrators when viewing the entry.
Bulk Add / Predefined Choices	Allows you to select a category and customize the predefined choices or paste your own list to bulk add choices. See note 1.

Appearance Settings

Setting	Description
Placeholder	The Placeholder will not be submitted along with the form. You can use the Placeholder to require the user to select any of choices.
Enable enhanced user interface	By selecting this option, the chosen jQuery script will be applied to this field, enabling search capabilities to Drop Down fields and a more user-friendly interface for Multi Select fields.

Advanced Settings

Setting	Description
Default Value	Pre-populates the value of the Drop Down field. Enter the choice you would like to display.

Merge Tags

For more information on the use of merge tags, refer to these articles.

Usage

{Field Name:2:modifier}

Modifiers

Modifier	Description
:value	Outputs the value of the field instead of the choice label.
:currency	Converts the value to a currency value.
:price	Same as :currency.

Calculations

If you’re going to use this field type in a calculation formula, please check Number Formatting Rules in the Calculations doc page.