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I'd like to work out a sort of template on a custom page for meeting notes that includes a drop-down menu populated with all current members so you could pick "Best Speaker" etc..from that menu each week.
It'd be like the one you have when populating an agenda. Any code snippets you could share ?

thx

Oops I meant members drop-down menu !!

The simplest thing is just to use a basic HTML <select>: www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_select.asp

You will need to enter it in the editor's source view. This is considered doing advanced work in FTH... we do not train people on using HTML... you can get the gist of it from available online references.

However, you may run into a problem, as this is a form element (will have a "new" value when used) and we do not support form elements... we do not save any "new" values of form elements. Thus, unless you set the save the appropriate option of the select element as "selected" prior to saving the form (this would require editing the HTML each time), the drop down would revert to the same default each time you view it.

Steve

Thx. I had already considered the static list of members but knowing that you have a way to auto populate the list based on the members that are currently in the system I was looking for a way to do this using jquery, which I believe you are using for your agenda page.

I asked only because I know that you are already doing this in your agenda template so could we not single out this functionality for a custom page ? On your agenda page I can pick a member from the list for a role and they will be saved so the problem you describe is not an issue there. All I'm trying to do is steal that part of the agenda for a custom page.

Ok, then. You can fetch the select options from the select with id="MemberSelect" ... that will do it. That is the list of current members as a select... it exists only if a member or admin is logged in.

However, as we will not provide support for javascript for user scripts, this presumes that you know enough about it to keep yourself out of trouble. If you finish Toastmasters and move on and leave your club a mess to deal with, it is not on us. Keep that in mind.

Also, I do not guarantee to maintain the same identifiers n the future (MemberSelect)... I will change identifiers if I see fit.

Steve
So using MemberSelect I could eventually save the page too ? The idea is this. I'd like to provide a page each week that the Secretary could update by filling out a few fields and then save it as meeting notes for this date. Unfortunately, I'm not the html guy but I'm confident I can start once I see a few examples. Is this at all possible using custom pages ? If so would you have a quick example of something that simply says :

Best Table Topics {MemberSelect}
Best Speaker {MemberSelect}
Best Evaluator {MemberSelect}

SAVE

Thx

You would have to edit the page each time.... no form support, so a drop down would not work as you might expect.

Also, fill-ins on custom pages are not currently supported, so you would have to use javascript to copy the options to where you want them.

I am getting the impression this may be outside your range of expertise, so I am not going to provide any more input on this to prevent contributing to a mess that I would have to later clean up. Sorry.

Probably much simpler for you to just create and embed a google form in a page.

Got it.