An essential guide to Selection Lists and Intelligent Selects: A round up of articles that discuss selection entry types

Sage CRM allows fields to be defined for the interface that are defined from a wide range of different entry types. The entry types in Sage CRM control the field behaviour, the type of data that may be entered and how the field is rendered as HTML in the browser.

For more details about the different Entry Types see the article "Sage CRM EntryTypes used in the COM ASP API".

Among the entry types available for field definition in Sage CRM, there are many that describe different forms of selection lists that may be used in the interface. These types include

• Selection
• User Select
• Team Select
• User Multi-select
• Intelligent Select
• Multi-select

'Search Select Advanced' fields are not discussed here because there is a whole series of articles dedicated to that entry type. See the article "Almost everything you wanted to know about Search Select Advanced Fields (A round up about lookups)". 

Below are links to articles that discuss different aspects of defining, controlling and using these different selection lists.

Selection

• Working with Selection Lists
• Using SearchSQL to limit data returned by selection lists
• Building selection lists in ASP pages without reference to Meta Data
• Using an onChange Script on a Selection list to set a value of another field
• Changing a Checkbox to a Selection list

User Select

• Working Client Side with User Select Lists

Team Select

• Controlling the Display of Drop Down Options in Team Select Fields

User Multi-select

• Creating a User Multi Select that updates multiple records

Intelligent Select

• Intelligent Selects

Multi-select

• Changing the Display of Multi Select fields

Changing the Display of Multi Select fields