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I am working on a Schema creation in SDL Tridion 2011 SP1. I have struck at one thing.

I have to display three drop downs to user.

  1. List: Country
  2. List:State
  3. List:Location

If the user selects one country in the drop down, need to populate the states according to it. Depending the selected state I have to populate Locations.

I thought of implementing through Categories.

  1. Created categories to countries
  2. Created States as Abstract Keywords under for each country.
  3. Created locations as Normal keywords under every state as normal keywords.

Can any one suggest how to achieve the following:

  1. I will have three drop downs, for Country, States, Locations.
  2. If the User selects any Country, the states should be populated accordingly and depending on selected state the locations should be populated.

Do I need to do any customization to tridion or it can be implemented in Tridion directly?

Frank van Puffelen
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Patan
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    You may also want to look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10943567/how-to-populate-a-drop-down-with-values-from-javascript and reach out to "User" to see how he is progressing – Frank van Puffelen Jun 14 '12 at 11:26

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Do you really need to select Countries and States? If you select a Location keyword from the taxonomy structure, you are indirectly selecting the Country and State. I would implement this as a single tree type keyword field.

E.g. Select "Dallas" and it will imply that you have selected "Texas" and "USA"

That way you only need one field. In the CME you will see be able to see items classified against USA by including child keywords, and on the Content Delivery side you will be able to query the content.

Chris Summers
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  • Used with the Tree schema field option, this setup is quite intuitive. – Alvin Reyes Jun 15 '12 at 01:13
  • Thank you for the answer. I just quoted this as example. If I want do same stuff with other than location, Can I implement it without any customization. – Patan Jun 15 '12 at 04:11
  • @AlvinReyes. Can you clarify what Tree schema means. – Patan Jun 15 '12 at 04:13
  • "Tree" _field_ option is available for text field with category selected. Choose from "drop-down, select box, radio buttons, check boxes, or tree." Tree option gives users the keyword picker. Yes, the approach can with other fields that use a Category and Keywords. – Alvin Reyes Jun 16 '12 at 10:00
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Do I need to do any customization to tridion...

Yes. If you want this exact behavior in the Component editing screen, you would need to implement it in a GUI extension.

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