Dropdownboxes are a great interface for providing a list of choices for a field. You can achieve the same effect with a List control. The look and feel of a dropdownbox can be customized using CSS, but the amount of control is limited. List controls, however, are fully customizable using client-side templating.
List controls can be configured as Editors for fields in a FormView. In the video, "Cascading List Control Editors", we demonstrate how you can create a cascading List control that lists the choices available for a 'State' and 'City' field in a FormView control.
Cascading List Control Editors
Video Link: https://www.viddler.com/v/c6b2ae09
Prerequisite Knowledge Base
There is a wealth of information about Editors available. Follow the links below to learn the basics of Editors and Editor Sets, how to build a Dropdownbox Editor, and information about other types of Editors you can create with the beta tablet optimized forms tools.
List controls can be configured as Editors for fields in a FormView. In the video, "Cascading List Control Editors", we demonstrate how you can create a cascading List control that lists the choices available for a 'State' and 'City' field in a FormView control.
Cascading List Control Editors
Video Link: https://www.viddler.com/v/c6b2ae09
Prerequisite Knowledge Base
There is a wealth of information about Editors available. Follow the links below to learn the basics of Editors and Editor Sets, how to build a Dropdownbox Editor, and information about other types of Editors you can create with the beta tablet optimized forms tools.
- Introduction to the FormView Control: Learn the basics of the FormView control, Editors, and Editor Sets.
- Switch Editors: Discover how you can use an in-line switch to edit values instead of an editor set for binary and multi-value fields.
- Editors: Using a Dropdown Box: A discussion about how to use a dropdown box as an editor.
- Editors: Cascading Dropdown Boxes: A continuation of a previous thread, Editors: Using a Dropdown Box, which covers how to implement cascading dropdown boxes within the context of tablet form Editors and Editor Sets.
- Introduction to Group Editors: Learn how to edit a group of controls together using a Group Editor.
- Client-side Template Tutorial: A step-by-step tutorial on merging JSON data into a client-side template.
- The Template Tester: A tutorial on client-side template syntax and how using the Template Tester will help takes the guess work out of creating client-side templates.