more than one separate value?

By: Thomas Kutscher | Asked: 02/20/2024
ForumsCategory: How-tomore than one separate value?
Thomas Kutscher asked 7 months ago

Dear all,

i have a dropdown field with multiple Names. Each name has an unique email-address and an unique number.

Target: when the user select a name, the corresponding email and number should be filled automatically in separate fields. As read only.

One value - e.g. email-address - is no problem. Just by addressing (calculating) the "separate value" of the dropdown list. But how can i address one more "separate value"?

 

I hope you understand what i mean... 😉   Thanks so much, tom

1 Answers
Rob LeVineRob LeVine answered 7 months ago

I'm going to say that that is a non-standard use of "separate values", but I'm sure others have done similar too.  I would use jQuery and when the user is selected, you pass the user ID, via an Ajax call, to a PHP program that looks up the user and returns his/her email address and unique number.  The jQuery code then sets the value of the two read-only fields to the values returned by the Ajax call.  Another option, using jQuery without the need for Ajax is change your "separate values" to be "email_address[some delimited]unique_number", e.g., [email protected]|456.  When the user selects a value, you can use jQuery to split the string by the delimiter and assign the values to the read-only fields.  That being said, two things: 1. I'm not clear how you set up your separate values in the first place and 2. There may be a way without any custom code, and I'm not thinking of it.

Thomas Kutscher replied 7 months ago

thank you so much. I will try the "delimiter"-way 🙂

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