Hi,

I am wanting to use the form for a risk assessment.

The logic is that people will select certain things and a total is compiled on the back of it.

I have the calculations fine, so if people select certain answers then a score is attached to it. At the end I have a total.

I then want to populate a dropdown based on the total.

So for example if the total was between 0 - 5, the dropdown would prepopulate with "Not at risk", if the score was between 6 - 10 it would prepopulate "mild risk". 11 - 15 Moderate risk, and so on.

I'm doing it this way as I want to email out a small report using the data from the dropdowns.

Does anyone have nay suggestions?

I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Chris

For anyone interested I did this with some php.

I mostly just changed information that was already available on the forum. "risk_factor" is a hidden field.


// Define the score range
$firstrange = range(0, 5);
$secondrange = range(6, 10);
$thirdrange = range(11, 15);
$forthrange = range(16, 99);

// The code

if(in_array($_POST, $firstrange)){
$_POST = '<strong> Not at Risk </strong>';}
else if (in_array($_POST, $secondrange)){
$_POST = 'Mild Risk';}
else if (in_array($_POST, $thirdrange)){
$_POST = 'Moderate Risk';}
else if (in_array($_POST, $forthrange)){
$_POST = 'SIGNIFICANT RISK';}

I also have a large drop down list which the user selects which contains various regions.

I want to use their selection to populate a hidden field which will contain text which will go in an email. So if the user selects "new york" for example, it would put some text I have already specified. So the email might say

"You've selected New York. We suggest you visit The Statue of Liberty." In real terms this would be something like "You've selected {City}, we suggest you visit {tourist place}".

Whats the best way to do this? I could do it similar to the php code above, however the dropdown list I have contains 400 pieces of data, so the php code would be huge and probably crude. Any suggestions?

Dropdown items are composed out of two elements: value and label. Syntax: value|label. More details on this here:

http://www.rsjoomla.com/support/documentation/view-article/827-dropdown.html

In your case, you could use something like this:

Email message here|New York

Within the email body configuration you would use the value placeholder for the dropdown.

Hi Alex,

Thanks for that. I thought this was perfect for what I needed, but it will restrict me to only 1 item. Do you suggest a way for one dropdown to copy another?

Also, the "email message here" bit might be quite long and when I've done a large list, the "email message here" and "new york" value | label are not correct. It is hard to explain, but the value and label are not the ones together. For example if I select number 8 on the list, it is displaying the "New york" correctly, but the email text is from number 4 on the list instead.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris

Even this is what a 5 year old post, I try to solve something similar.
Does anyone has an idea where to put this php code to have a result based on a range?
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