How to change dropdown selection by using another dropdown?

  • beatcore

    (@beatcore)


    10 years ago

    Hi there,

    i’m using your plugin and am stuck with a problem:

    Short version: I want to select a dropdown option by selecting another dropdown menus option…

    Long version: Dropdown Menu 1 shows/hides the form below. It has three options “please choose” – which hides the form from the beginning, and 2 additional options: “Product 1” and “Product 2”. If you select on of these products the form is shown.

    Dropdown Menus 2+3+4 have 2 options each which show different images in a html field, the product images in the HTML field are divived into 3 parts, “Product 1 Top”, “Product 1 Center” and “Product 1 Bottom”, these Options are preset. The additional options are respective “Product 2 Top”, “Product 2 Center” and “Product 2 Bottom”…

    So far so good, if i choose an option from the Dropdown Menus 2+3+4, the images in the HTML field changes.

    What i want to achieve is: If i select “Product 2” from Dropdown Menu 1, the form shows, and i want the three dropdowns then to automatically preselect the proper options, in this case “Product 2 Top”, “Product 2 Center” and “Product 2 Bottom” which then show the images which belong to these options.

    I can’t find a solution to change a dropdown value with clicking another dropdown menus option. Is there any way to achieve this?

    best regards,
    beatcore

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/

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  • scraido

    (@scraido)

    9 years, 12 months ago

    When you Add Dropdown Select Option you must click the radio button in front of the 1st option on Dropdown Menus 2, 3, & 4 first

    and then make a conditional name it default and tick ( “Product 1 Top”, “Product 1 Center” and “Product 1 Bottom” ) on the left, w/ type Hide;
    If Dropdown Menus 2 is 1st option or
    If Dropdown Menus 3 is 1st option or
    If Dropdown Menus 4 is 1st option

    Hope this’ll help you, Tq

    Thread Starter beatcore

    (@beatcore)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,
    i don’t get the point to be honest 🙁 my dropdowns have already default values, but i can’t apply the logic forth and back…

    below a “drawing” of whatt it should look like 🙂

    State 0:
    ————————
    DD1 > Please Choose
    ————————

    State 1:
    ————————
    DD1 > Product 1
    ————————
    DD2 > Product 1 Top
    ————————
    DD3 > Product 1 Center
    ————————
    DD4 > Product 1 Bottom
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 1 Top
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 1 Center
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 1 Bottom
    ————————

    State 3:
    ————————
    DD1 > Product 2
    ————————
    DD2 > Product 2 Top
    ————————
    DD3 > Product 2 Center
    ————————
    DD4 > Product 2 Bottom
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 2 Top
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 2 Center
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 2 Bottom
    ————————

    State 4:
    ————————
    DD1 > Individual
    ————————
    DD2 > Product 1 Top
    ————————
    DD3 > Product 2 Center
    ————————
    DD4 > Product 2 Bottom
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 1 Top
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 2 Center
    ————————
    HTML Image Product 2 Bottom
    ————————

    and if i have State 4 and i select Product 1 from DD1 it should switch back to e.g. State 2…

    Currently i’ve set a conditional on DD1:
    -> Show -> if either “Product 1” OR “Product 2” are selected
    -> ticked all the fields on the right side for DD2, DD3, DD4, HTML

    And i’ve also set conditionals for DD2,3 + 4, eg. DD2:
    -> Show if DD2 IS option “product 1”
    -> Show if DD2 IS NOT option “product 2” AND if DD1 IS “product 1”
    -> ticked the field DD2 on the right side

    …

    scraido

    (@scraido)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi beatcore,

    Im sorry i didn’t get what you mean, btw i’ve made form from your ilustration, is that what you mean? please >>click_here<<

    Thank you

    Thread Starter beatcore

    (@beatcore)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi scraido,

    thx for your effort! But still not exactly what i mean, if i take your form as example:

    I select A -> DD1 as a starter (in my case it would be 1 single dropdown DD1, and i select “model 1”):

    Now the product is shown with 3 dropdowns above (2a/2b/2c) and the 3 images below

    BUT

    2a is only top pieces
    2b is only center pieces
    2c is only bottom pieces

    After selecting DD1 it defaults in my case to:
    2a – “top 1”
    2b – “center 1”
    2c – “bottom 1”

    Now if i chose another top part from “2a”, which is e.g. “top 2” – in this case i am actually configuring the product, and the top name should no longer be “model 1” but should be “individual”. As soon as i change something from 2a / 2b / 2c the DD1 dropdown should jump to individual! This is what i meant: make selections change dropdown values.

    I’ve made a table to show it better:

    <center>
<h2>Starting with one dropdown:</h2>
<table width="100%" border="1" style="text-align:center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Please choose</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>Selecting "Model 1" - the 3 dropdowns and the images appear:</h2>
<table width="100%" border="1" style="text-align:center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="color:green">Model 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="30%">Top 1</td><td width="30%">Center 1</td><td width="30%">Center 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Image Top 1<br/>
Image Center 1<br/>
Image Bottom 1</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>Case 1: Selecting "Model 2" - the 3 dropdowns and the images should appear with the right preset <span style="color:red">(red is what i can't achieve)</span>:</h2>
<table width="100%" border="1" style="text-align:center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="color:green">Model 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="30%" style="color:red">Top 2</td><td width="30%" style="color:red">Center 2</td><td width="30%" style="color:red">Center 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Image Top 1<br/>
Image Center 1<br/>
Image Bottom 1</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2>Case 2: Changing "Top 1" to "Top 3" - "Model 1" should switch to "individual" <span style="color:red">(red is what i can't achieve)</span>:</h2>
<table width="100%" border="1" style="text-align:center">
<tr>
<td colspan="3" style="color:red">individual</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="30%" style="color:green">Top 3</td><td width="30%">Center 1</td><td width="30%">Center 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">Image Top 3<br/>
Image Center 1<br/>
Image Bottom 1</td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>

    I know i could make several different dropdowns to achieve “Case 1” but i want it to be 1 dropdown, as the values per dropdown are 10 + each…

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