Select Field doesn't retain selection

  • Resolved jayharland

    (@jayharland)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    This has baffled me and I’m turning to the internet for help.

    Here’s the issue:

    • I create a select box with multiple options
    • The selected option is output to the page
    • Sometimes, when editing the page, the select value reverts back to the first option, like it doesn’t remember what was selected previously.
    • The user saves the page without knowing this has happened. Then wonders why the information is displayed on the page wrong.

    After reselecting the correct values and saving, it seems ok, until it randomly happens again on a different page or even the same one.

    Anyone have similar issues?

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  • Thread Starter jayharland

    (@jayharland)

    So, I believe the issue is related to the value passed for each select option.

    Here’s why:

    • The issue is only happening with specific select fields
    • The values of these fields contain a colon

    The select fields give the user a list of times to choose from, i.e. “12:00 AM” or “3:00 PM”. Without specifying a value, the label becomes the value. So it looks like “12:00 AM : 12:00 AM” in field editor.

    I speculate that, while normally the value can be whatever, perhaps the way CFS parses or stores the values is creating the issue; especially since the “value : label” format is separated by a colon.

    What I’ve done is changed all of the values to be military time (1200, 1500, etc) while keeping the labels at civilian time.

    I’ll post again if this fixes things.

    Thread Starter jayharland

    (@jayharland)

    So far the problem has not reappeared after I removed the colon from the values.

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