This page displays all currently available pre-valued dropdowns in the system. Essentially, this is a storage area for you to set up your dropdowns. They won't actually be used until you apply them to either a category question (explained here) or an optional site wide field. You can set up as many as you like and use the same pre-valued dropdown box for more than one question if you like. Once created, these dropdowns will automatically appear as an option for you to select from when you activate an “Optional Site Wide Fields” or set up your “Category Questions”.
What is a Pre-Valued Dropdown Box?
This is a type of field that is used by the seller during the listing process. The seller is asked (by you) several questions pertaining to their listing. Each of those questions typically has a blank text box for them to type their answer. However, instead of giving them a blank text box, you can offer them a "pre-valued dropdown" which has several default entries that they can choose from. The more questions you set up with a 'pre-valued dropdown', the less typing they have to do when listing their item.
For example, you will ask them a question about the item they are listing, such as "color", and then provide them with either a blank field to answer the question, or a "pre-valued dropdown box" to answer the question. When clicked the dropdown will display a list of colors you have entered through this menu for the question you defined as 'color'. Shown below is an example of how your dropdown will look:
Pre-Valued Dropdowns keep the seller from having to type out their information. Instead, they can simply select from the available options you give to them. In this example, 'color' is a generic question that can be assigned to several optional site wide fields or category questions if you like. For instance, you could set up two 'category specific questions' in an 'automobiles' category and call them 'interior color' and 'exterior color'. When creating each of them you could assign your new 'color' dropdown box as the 'question type' for both.
Insert a New Dropdown
The first page you will see asks you to give your new dropdown a “label”. This label is for your reference to be used in the Admin Panel only when assigning this “dropdown” to 'category questions' and “optional site wide fields”. On the next page is where you will designate the values (colors, in our example) that will be displayed in the dropdown, as well as, the order that you want them displayed.
Apply Dropdown to Category Questions
Click into the CATEGORIES menu. Next, click the “edit” button associated with the category you want to add this dropdown box to. Be sure to click on the “edit” button the far right of the screen, which is associated with the “edit category questions” for that category.
Click the "add new question" link and begin entering your information. The 'question type' field should now display all of the dropdowns you have created through the "Pre-Valued Dropdowns" menu.
Apply Dropdown to Optional Site Wide Fields
Click into the LISTING SETUP > FIELDS TO USE menu. Scroll down to the "Optional Site Wide Fields" section and choose "use" for one of the fields. As you move your way to the right across the screen making your choices, the "type" column will display a dropdown for you to select. This dropdown will display all of the "Pre-Valued Dropdowns" you have entered into the system.