Drop Down Boxes - Increasing Width

[gnorman2000]

Hello,

I running Sugar OS 5.0b, I need to change the width of the dropdown boxes so all the items will show in full, The width of the fields are varchar 30. How do I change the width so all my items will show up in the boxes in full,

Thanks

Garry

[DragonflyMaster]

Hello,

I running Sugar OS 5.0b, I need to change the width of the dropdown boxes so all the items will show in full, The width of the fields are varchar 30. How do I change the width so all my items will show up in the boxes in full,

Thanks

Garry

Hi,
I've never changed a dropdown's width, but I suppose it can be done the same way as other fields. So everything I'm telling you here is just a supposition, you'll need to check if it's correct or not.
You can change a field's width editing editviewdefs.php and/or detailviewdefs.php files.
For example, if you need to modify a dropdown in the Accounts module, open
<sugar-root>\modules\Accounts\metadata\editviewdefs.php
and see if your dropdown is defined in there. If not, open
<sugar-root>\custom\modules\Accounts\metadata\editviewdef s.php
and you'll surely find it there.
For text fields, the width is specified with the code:
'cols' => xx,
where xx is the number of columns/chars of the field.
So I suppose that if you add such code in your dropdown description it should work...

array (
				  0 => 
				  array (
				  'name' => 'My_Dropdown',
				  'label' => 'LBL_MYDROPDOWN',
				  'cols' => '50',
				  ),

Let me know if it worked.