Checkbox/dropdown relationship

[Neilltech]

Hello,

I'm quite new with Sugar and am currently setting up custom fields and layouts in Studio. I was wondering if it would be possible to create a dropdown list field that only shows up when a checkbox is selected. Or even just make it so that nothing can be selected in that list unless the box has been checked.

Don't know if this can be done, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Respectfully,
Roberto Ruiz
Neill Technologies
roberto.ruiz@neill.com

[robertbmirth]

Why not just combine the two custom fields into one? I mean, if the checkbox is controlling the dropdown, couldn't you just have an "Unchecked" entry in the dropdown menu?

If you can't do that, then I don't know how you can do exactly what you want, but functionally, you can create a logic hook that resets the value in the dropdown list to blank if the checkbox isn't checked. Something like:

 <?php

LogicHookClass
{
    LogicHookFunction(&$bean, $event, $argument)
    {
        if(empty($bean->activate_dropdown_c) || $bean->activate_dropdown_c == 0)
       {
           $bean->dropdown_c = '';
       }
    }
}
?>  

One problem with this is that if you had a user that didn't know your dropdown and checkbox were connected, they wouldn't understand why the dropdown keeps on resetting itself and would probably get frustrated at it. Got any coworkers you don't like?

[Neilltech]

Thanks for your reply. I was trying to do this since my company offers many software enhancements that are only available to certain types of customer, so an option that locked down a dropdown until selected would help avoid customers being quoted on enhancements they can't have. If it's not possible to do this I can live without it. Thanks for your help though!

Respectfully, Roberto Ruiz

[robertbmirth]

You might be able to do something similar to what happens here:
http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63502

I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like your problem and the problem in that thread are very similar, so might be worth looking into.