Question

I cannot use "Select Name" as the selection text of a form select list.

I have the following select list defined as "TesterNameList1":

| *Name* | *Type* | *Tooltip message* |
| Select Name | option | Empty default slot |
| Select name | option | Next slot |
| select name | option | Slot after that |
| Not Select Name | option | Slot after that |

I would not normally have multiple items with similar text, this is a demo for this question only.

The form definition is so:

| *Name* | *Type* | *Size* | *Values* | *Tooltip message* |
| TesterNameList1 | select | 1 | | Who's doing the testing? |

Only "Select name" and "select name" show up in the edit-time select list. Anything I've tried with "Select Name" goes missing. This is simple to work around of course, but who knows what other monsters lie here?

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001
• Perl version: ActivePerl 5.6.1
• Web server & version: IIS 5
• Server OS: Win 2000
• Web browser & version: IE 5.50
• Client OS: Win NT 4 WS

-- GordonSmith - 13 Dec 2002

Answer

As far as I can see, your example isn't following the required syntax of | Name | Type | Size | Values | Tooltip | . Each row after this first row should in the Values have a commaseparated list of choices. Check out how WebForm is written and compare it with your example. Or see Codev.WebForm for a more advanced form (it has several classification aspects = several rows in the form table).

-- TorbenGB - 06 Feb 2003