need help to minimize drop down box in basic/advance search panel

[ddconcert]

Hi,


Please give me some direction on how to minimize the large drop down box in basic/advance search panel.
The drop down box should look like the one in Create Document/Create Account Panel.
The large drop down box is not our preference.

Here are the attachments for your reference.
The Category drop down box in "large drop down box.jpg" is large.
The Category drop down box in "small drop down box.jpg" is our preference.

How to create the small drop down box like in Create Document, in basic/advance search panel?

Please provide help,

Your help will be appreciated.

Thank you,

Sincerely,
Dave

[ddconcert]

Anyone??

Please don't sit there like a potato and do nothing.

Please help!

[DragonflyMaster]

Hi.

First of all, when you ask for other people's free help you should be patient and wait for an answer that could even not come.
People here is not "sitting like potatoes doing nothing".

Coming to your question,
what you call "the large dropdown" is a Multiselect field, which is a field that allows to select more than one value at a time, while a dropdown allow single selections only.
If you want that field to appear as a dropdown, you have to build it and hide the other, then arrange views.
I suggest you to read Sugar's manual, there is a sections about the many different fields.

[ddconcert]

Hi DragonFly,

Thank you for your answer.
Could you or any sugar expert post some information on how to change the multi-select to a drop down box?



Sincerely,
Dave

[DragonflyMaster]

You have to build a dropdown, fill it with a list of values, then hide the multiselect field.
But first go here:
http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/support/documentation
locate the page according to the version you are using and download the manuals.
Many questions are answered in the manuals, so please take a look at them.

[SugarCoated83]

Hi all, same problem here ..... and i tried to modify the drop down panel, but its not changing ...... I'm using sugar 5.2 community edition .... please help .....

[shamimwilson]

Hi,

If you want to change the multi select drop down in the search panel
then go to the custom/modules/<module name>/metadata/searchdefs.php.

then add the following line
'displayParams' => array('size' => 1),

for example you want to convert the account_type drop down in Accounts modules..

'account_type' =>
array (
'name' => 'account_type',
'label' => 'LBL_TYPE',
'default' => true,
'displayParams' => array('size' => 1),
),


Then quick repair and rebuild