# Addition of new choices/items to a list in select widget during data collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas\ **Tags:** odk-collect\ **Created:** [November 23, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/addition-of-new-choices-items-to-a-list-in-select-widget-during-data-collection/16443 "2018-11-23T10:26:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Xiphware](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/xiphware/32/2587_2.png) [@Xiphware](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Xiphware)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/addition-of-new-choices-items-to-a-list-in-select-widget-during-data-collection/16443/2 "2018-11-26T21:27:21Z")
> [@Svenja](#): > > I would like to add an additional item or choice to a list in a select widget during data collection. FYI this is effectively the XForm [open selection](https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xforms-20031014/slice8.html#ui-selectMany), specifically: > ... In this case, control select may have attribute selection="open". The form control should then allow free data entry, as described in 8.1.2 The input Element. The form control may permit multiple values to be entered through free entry. which applies to both select (select\_multiple) and select1 questions. Unfortunately, ODK Collect and Enketo do not currently support specifying `selection="open"` on selects. Instead, you can accomplish a similar result by adding an additional option - eg "Other" - and using this to trigger showing a following question to enter the custom value, as described [here](https://docs.opendatakit.org/form-question-types/#including-other-as-a-choice). Which is to say, there is already a pretty well-established workaround for the absence of XForm open selection support in ODK [sic]. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.getodk.org/t/addition-of-new-choices-items-to-a-list-in-select-widget-during-data-collection/16443)._