WebAssist Web Extensions - Dynamic Dropdowns
Dynamic Dropdowns creates and controls dependent drop-down lists like nothing else.
Power up your drop-down lists!
Dynamic Dropdowns from WebAssist creates dependent select lists, for quick category sorting. Add them to an online store to ensure that your customers will find what they’re looking for, fast.
Using a common sense search approach, you can quickly create drill-down categories that direct your customer straight to what they looking for.
Create dependent, drill-down lists dynamically
Dynamically builds options for drop-down lists for efficient display and selection.
Excellent tool for simplified site navigation
Drill-down lists make it easy for customers to find what they want. Choose an item from one list to populate another - which can then populate another list or link to a page.
Point-and-click design-time interface
All the JavaScript and server-side code is generated for you to eliminate any painful, time-consuming hand-coding.
Fast, fast run-time effect
All data arrays are created when the page loads, so queries only hit the server once - which make for fast, efficient results.
Features of Dynamic Dropdowns
Drill-down lists made easy
Dynamic Dropdowns allow you to build one select list that is filtered by another. Choices from the first list determine what options are available in the second list. Selection in the second list could populate a third list, which, in turn, could link to the desired page or trigger some other information from being displayed.
Enhanced controls provide options
Dynamic Dropdowns works on dynamic pages, pulling information from a recordset created in Dreamweaver to create an immediately accessible array. Application server models supported include ASP-JavaScript, ASP-VBScript, ColdFusion and PHP.
Add, Move, or Delete Select Lists
Dynamic Dropdowns allows you to create interactively controlled lists - without coding. Items can be added or removed from lists, moved up or down within the target list or selected all at once.
Enhanced controls provide options
Through the Dynamic Dropdowns interface, you can set a range of options, including leaving descriptive text, like "Next, select your item", at the top of the list. You can even choose to prepend the name of the parent list so that the relationship between the chosen list items is clear.
System Requirements
Windows
Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
Dreamweaver MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8
Works with static and dynamic pages.
Macintosh
500 MHz Power PC G3 processor
Mac OS X 10.1.x, 10.2.x, 10.3.x and 10.4.x
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
Dreamweaver MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8
Works with static and dynamic pages
Supported Server Models
ASP-JavaScript
ASP-VBScript
ColdFusion
PHP 4.2+
Samples of Dynamic Dropdowns
(Follow link and click on the WebAssist Site Samples tab)
Dynamic Dropdowns gives you complete control over nested, data-driven dropdown lists. The behaviors in this suite populate the "Child" list from the selection in the "Parent" list as well as provide list controls implemented on form buttons. In this example, there are two recordsets on the page one each for the Parent and Child dropdown lists. Making a selection (or multiple selections) in the Parent list triggers custom code that dynamically populates the child list without page resubmission thus saving on server processing bandwidth.
1) Select car manufacturers from the parent list and see the child list dynamically populate with corresponding models. (multiple manufacturers can be selected using the CTRL or SHIFT keys). Here, the server is only hit once on the first page load.
2) Select car models from the child list and add them to the selected list by pressing the "Add to Selected" button. (multiple models can be selected using the CTRL or SHIFT keys)
3) Manipulate the order and content of the select list (multiple items can be selected using the CTRL or SHIFT keys).
Support for Dynamic Dropdowns
All WebAssist products receives professional, top-of-the-line support from a number of resources. Dynamic Dropdowns includes a full online help system, available directly from within Dreamweaver and the extension.
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