Single Selection Field Options

Single Selection fields let users make one selection for the field.

Style

• Allow searching

  Select this option to enable the value find feature for the field on submit, transition, and update forms. This enables users to search for values.

  Tip: If the field will contain 200 or more selections, this option is recommended to ensure best performance. If you do not allow searching, fields that contain over 250 selection values are automatically set as searchable in the Editable Grid.
• Single drop-down list

  Select this option to let users select a value from a populated drop-down list.

Values

Manage values by adding, removing, or reordering them. Click within each row to modify existing values.

Weights give a numeric value to each selection that can be useful for Trend reports, backlog views, and Summation fields.

You can use the default weight of 100 for each value or specify different weights for each value as needed. By default, "none" values are treated as 0. If you want "none" values to be treated as a value other than 0, change the value in the Weight for "(none)" value setting.

To include or exclude all values, select Enable all or Disable all from the More list.

To manage a large number of selections, use the Import and Export options in the More list. For details, refer to Importing Selection Field Values.

If you delete this field and later restore it, the values you specify are also restored. For more information, see Deleting and Restoring Fields.

Display

• Span entire row on forms

  Select this option to make this field the only field to appear on a single row.

Search & Query

• Appears in report field lists

  Select this option to include the field in lists on report forms. If you clear this option after the field is used in reports, the changed setting is ignored for those reports and the field is still shown until it is removed from the report definition.

• Appears on lookup form and relational field value lookup

  Select this option to add the field to the Auxiliary Data search forms and the Advanced Lookup Tool and Relational Field Value Lookup forms.

  The field order for the Advanced Lookup Tool and Relational Field Value Lookup forms for primary items is determined by the default field order of the table's first project in the project hierarchy. Projects are defined in Application Administrator.

• Appears on searches for this table

  Select this option to specify that the field will be available for selection on the Advanced Search page. This setting applies to primary and auxiliary tables. See Configuring Advanced Search for additional information.

• On lookup or query-at-runtime forms
  • Allow searching

    This option enables the value find and relational field value lookup for the field. (See Allow Searching under Style above for a description of the value find feature.) The relational field value lookup feature provides an advanced searching mechanism that lets users find values for Single Relational and Multi-Relational fields. If this option is enabled, an additional search icon is available for the field.

  • Show full list

    This option lets users select a value from a drop-down list on the Lookup form of the Advanced Lookup Tool, the Relational Field Value Lookup form, and Query-at-Runtime forms for reports.