ONLY WANT US STATES TO DISPLAY IN FORM DROP DOWN

Erin Bolton 2 · April 2017

Dear Blackbaud,

I cannot believe you do not have the ability to limit or select a table of "states" based on the country. I only need US states for my alumni registration forms. I would not like Canada or US army bases to show as options in the drop down field of choices for NetCommunity forms. Can you please develop a fix for this?

Thank you,

Erin Bolton

Crystal Bruce · April 2017

Erin Bolton:

Dear Blackbaud,

I cannot believe you do not have the ability to limit or select a table of "states" based on the country. I only need US states for my alumni registration forms. I would not like Canada or US army bases to show as options in the drop down field of choices for NetCommunity forms. Can you please develop a fix for this?

Thank you,

Erin Bolton

Hey Erin,

We just implemented new features from the idea bank into BBNC -- this would be an idea for the product management team to review. Would you mind posting it in their idea bank?

https://community.blackbaud.com/products/netcommunity/ideas

Thanks!

Chris McGrane · April 2017

Erin Bolton:

Dear Blackbaud,

I cannot believe you do not have the ability to limit or select a table of "states" based on the country. I only need US states for my alumni registration forms. I would not like Canada or US army bases to show as options in the drop down field of choices for NetCommunity forms. Can you please develop a fix for this?

Thank you,

Erin Bolton

Hello Erin,

This can be easily accomplished using basic JS to remove specific options within the dropdown menu for states. Please include a link to a page with the dropdown, and I am happy to provide the JS to resolve this issue. Ideas submitted to the NetCommunity Ideas forum never will be implemented, so I am happy to help you myself.

- Chris

Erin Bolton 2 · April 2017

Thanks so much Chris for your solution. Can
you tell me what you mean by link to a page?

Thanks,

Erin

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Chris McGrane · April 2017

I need the link to your alumni registration form.

Thank you,

Chris

Erin Bolton 2 · April 2017

https://2300.thankyou4caring.org/homecoming2017

You don’t know how grateful I am. I did
manually move all the US states and DC to the top of my States
table as my current fix.

Erin

Chris McGrane · April 2017

Erin Bolton:

https://2300.thankyou4caring.org/homecoming2017

You don’t know how grateful I am. I did manually move all the US states and DC to the top of my States table as my current fix.

Erin

Hello Erin,

I'm always happy to help other non-profits. I made an example of the script working on a test page of my organizations NetCommunity.

You can view the example here: https://ctsciencecenter.thankyou4caring.org/dev/state-test

You will want to create an unformatted text part, and select for the content to appear before the closing body tag.

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Then you want to enter the the following script:

$(document).ready(function(){
   $('[id*="StateUS"] > option').each(function() {
   var states = ["AL", "AK", "AS", "AZ", "AR", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "DC", "FM", "FL", "GA", "GU", "HI", "ID", "IL", "IN", "IA", "KS", "KY", "LA", "ME", "MH", "MD", "MA", "MI", "MN", "MS", "MO", "MT", "NE", "NV", "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NY", "NC", "ND", "MP", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PW", "PA", "PR", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VT", "VI", "VA", "WA", "WV", "WI", "WY"];
   if($.inArray($(this).text(), states ) === -1){
   $(this).remove();
   }
   });
});

Here's a breakdown of what the script does:

1.) It locates the dropdown select box via a wildcard on the ID attribute.

2.) It then compares each option to an array of states that you want to include. Feel free to edit the array as necessary.

3.) If an option does not match an array option, it will delete the option from the select dropdown.

Please let me know if you have questions with implementation / the script itself.

Good Luck!

- Chris McGrane

Erin Bolton 2 · April 2017

Hi Chris,

Thank you! I’ll have to have someone versed in JS to help me insert
it. This is all new to me. Have a great weekend.

Erin

Chris McGrane · April 2017

Erin Bolton:

Hi Chris,

Thank you! I’ll have to have someone versed in JS to help me insert it. This is all new to me. Have a great weekend.

Erin

Not a problem! Have a nice weekend!

- Chris

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