I would like to create a dynamic drop down list of options in odk form

[daselw]

What is the problem? Please be detailed.
I would like to create a dynamic drop down list of options or choices in multiple select.
I would appreciate your support.

Example. Lets say, I have a long list of choices. But instead of all appearing with the boxes, I would love the answer section to appear like a text, but once I start typing, the drop down list appears like it occurs in excel.

[danbjoseph]

Depending on your use-case maybe you can consider to filter the options based on previous answers with a cascading select.

These posts provide some more details on search:

ODK XLsForm Appearance search('EPIDATA') not working in new version of ODK-Collect

I can't see your second screenshot but I'm guessing that you would like for it to include a search box that users can type filter text into, is that correct? The search() appearance/function is meant just to pull records from a CSV. It was unintentional that search() started showing that search box when the (different) search appearance was introduced. If you would like to combine them, you can use search search(). In general, I invite you to follow the releases category so you can see when ne…

How to add search option in ODK build forms to aid searching of large datasets

Hello Not sure what you want to use the search for. We have implemented a search to filter the choice list in a select_one list from a large csv file. The way we do it is as follows: Create a text field in the form called srchstr use this srchstr in the appearance field of the select_one question to filter the list. The attached picture explains it better [image]

[yanokwa]

Another option to try is to use the autocomplete appearance to do live filtering. https://docs.opendatakit.org/form-question-types/#multi-select-widget

[danbjoseph]

Does autocomplete work on select_one and select_multiple? I only see in the docs where it explicitly shows it being used with select_one.
https://docs.opendatakit.org/form-question-types/#select-widget-with-autocomplete

[yanokwa]

I checked the code before I posted, but your post gave me pause, so I checked the app, and yeah, autocomplete works!

Agreed that the docs could be clearer, so I've filed a docs issue at https://github.com/opendatakit/docs/issues/981

[daselw]

Thank you, it worked.

[Eugene]

Hi Daselw,
To get a dropdown menu on the options, follow the normal procedure of creating a dropdown on excel, then under the appearance column, key in autocomplete. It has worked on my end.