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User Profile Fields: What's the Difference between dropdown and list?

  • November 15, 2021
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Daniele Cmty
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Hi Community!

This one should be simple.

I am about to tweak my registration page. I want to add the question: “How did you find our Community?” and fill in a handful of pre-set options. 

In essence, I would like to know the difference between “Multi select dropdown” and “Multi select list”. Thanks!

 

 

Best answer by olimarrio

Hey @Daniele Cmty :v:,

 

I’ll share with you a few screenshots of our sandbox environment to show you the difference between the two:

 

As you can see the multi select list is made up of checkboxes, where multiple can of course be selected.

The multi select dropdown provides users with a set of values that are added like so:

 

These display on the user profile page in the same way so it only really depends on the UX that you prefer:

 

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olimarrio
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  • November 15, 2021

Hey @Daniele Cmty :v:,

 

I’ll share with you a few screenshots of our sandbox environment to show you the difference between the two:

 

As you can see the multi select list is made up of checkboxes, where multiple can of course be selected.

The multi select dropdown provides users with a set of values that are added like so:

 

These display on the user profile page in the same way so it only really depends on the UX that you prefer:

 


Daniele Cmty
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  • November 15, 2021

Nice! Very helpful answer.
Thank you so much @olimarrio 

I’ll definitely use “multi list” for this one.

Cheers,
Daniele