Dropdown with multiple selection

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I recently interacted with your tech support due to severe disruption using the Wix Editor. The disruption in question included:

  • unacceptable slowness in response times
  • mobile rendering chaos
  • drag&drop no longer working
  • Element drag handles overlapping strips, instead of maintaining the site layout
  • text becoming randomly misaligned
  • browser freezing because of CPU overutilisation
  • etc

You can watch some of my issues in this video https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cFfieQD7B3 (this is one of the few videos I shared with the Wix tech team)

Your tech support suggested that the high number of checkboxes each connecting to a collection caused the slowness on this particular page. And even though they were not as clear in explaining why all the other Editor errors, they seemed to concur that having a dropdwon with the option for multiple selections would help the editor performance and the user experience.

Please consider adding this feature to Wix Code, it would really help.

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Hello Simon, here is a link to another similar post I created. I found a solution with checkboxes, and the code to do it is there (https://www.wix.com/code/home/forum/community-discussion/dropdown-list-with-multiple-selections-to-one-db-field), but it is not an elegant solution and it cumbersome to programme. I am currently trying a different solution with repeaters, but it is a little beyond my capabilities, so it’s taking me time to study it.

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It’s about time Wix resolves this problem, it wouldn’t be good leaving us to build this features with third party’s APIs. Hopefully Wix team get this done.

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Yes, it would be good to develop this feature indeed.
I notice, however, that they have gotten one step closer to it, by developing a Multi-select feature.
If you go to User Input in the Editor, you will now find it there.
Not a multi-select drop-down, I know, but easier than coding individual checkboxes for sure…

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You can do something like this:

Multi-Select Dropdown

Create a dropdown menu with checkboxes and search a database using multiple filters.

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@yisrael-wix Thank you for sharing this, I am currently trying to implement the code for my own purposes of making a dropdown checkbox list.
My issue is that I need to be able to have a dropdown with multiple options that can be selected like the one in the site you’ve shared, but they then need to be submitted into a database as user input.
I’ve got a collection with contacts and their information and I have a separate collection with events - I need to make a form where a user will be able to submit a new event information and use the dropdown option listing all the contacts from the contacts collection in order for the user to be able to select multiple people who attended the event and then feed into the event database

is this possible? I’m struggling with adapting the code for my purposes

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I too am looking for what @Lenka Murova is looking for, @Yisrael (Wix). I have 30 something titles from which to choose (multiple choices) and setting each as a separate boolean item is a pain because the list changes from year to year.

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Hi,
Had the same issues when using 2 repeaters on one dataset.
Page problems in every way… just like you.
Think it made my page impossible to load as it should, due to the mass of data it needed to load in the 2 repeaters.
So needed to recreate completely one repeater on a new page and redirect to the new page when clicking on the button in the initial page.
But … problem now is that I need to find out with code how to pass referenced data from one page to another… because creating a dynamic collection page on a referenced field isn’t possible with the system itself…

Wix is great at some points, but sometimes… grrrrr