Dropdown

This operation will add a dropdown box to the current Form Container action. The field will allow the user to select a value from a list of possible values.

Settings

The action uses the following settings:

Setting

Description

Label

The text that should be displayed beside the field.

Items

The items to display in the list. Each line in the text will be translated to an entry in the dropdown.

Selected Value

The default selected value of the text area field.

Mandatory

Choose if the field is required to save the form or not.

Target Variable

The variable that will receive the final value of the text area field.

Remarks

This is a standard HTML Select field. UI layout may vary depending on the browser and on the platform used.

Each Item text and value can be specified by just using a vertical pipe for each element. If no pipe is specified text and value will be identical. Consider the list below:

|Any
ITA|Italiano
ENG|English
German

Using the above example for the items settings will generate a dropdown with the following data:

<option value=''>Any</option>
<option value='ITA'>Italiano</option>
<option value='ENG'>English</option>
<option value='German'>German</option>

Trigger

This action does not trigger any event.

Variables

This action does not return any variable but the one that have been specified in the Target Variable setting.

Availability

Channel specific availability follows the table below:

Channel

Availability

Facebook

Fully Available.

WhatsApp

Fully Available.

Telegram

Fully Available.

Web

Fully Available.

Alexa

Not Available.

Google Assistant

Not Available.

Slack

Fully Available.

API

Fully Available.

This action can be used only inside interactions and not as child of other actions. This action is available only to Premium Accounts.

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