Cannot multiple select on custom module's select popup

[bstonehill]

I created a custom module and related it to Accounts so that I have a subpanel for it. When I click select to associate an item to the current account I do not get the checkboxes on the left to make multiple selections like I do in all of the default modules. This is a big problem because I will be associating 10-20 items at a time and doing one at a time I can't really tell which ones I've already added.

My first thought was that it was because it was a one-to-many relationship, but I checked and it is a many-to-many.

The other possibility is if I can use mass update to assign multiple items to one account, similar to assigning multiple accounts to a user, but I can't seem to make any modifications to mass update in 5.0.0e. I already tried adding massupdate => false like I did in 4.5.1.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[dpatech]

The problem is that you need to pass the "MultiSelect" parameter in the form definition for open_popup. Look at this example below for selecting multiple Contacts from the Accounts page.

 <form action="index.php">
 <input type="button" name="select_button" id="select_button" class="button"
 title="Select [Alt+T]" accesskey="T" value="Select"
 onclick='open_popup("Contacts",600,400,"",true,true,{"call_back_function":"set_return_and_save_background","form_name":"DetailView","field_to_name_array":{"id":"subpanel_id"},"passthru_data":{"child_field":"Contacts","return_url":"index.php%3Fmodule%3DAccounts%26action%3DSubPanelViewer%26subpanel%3DContacts%26record%3D18f9ac99-e1db-926d-9312-47ba35a31008%26sugar_body_only%3D1","link_field_name":"contacts","module_name":"Contacts","refresh_page":"0"}},"MultiSelect",true);' /></form> 
  

You should be able to set this as part of your sub-panel definition as shown below. You have to pass the "mode" parameter as part of the widget data.

$subpanel_layout = array(
'top_buttons' => array(
array('widget_class' => 'SubPanelTopCreateButton'),
array('widget_class' => 'SubPanelTopSelectButton', 'popup_module' => 'Contacts', 'mode'=>'MultiSelect'),
),