Custom Profile Fields

[Starry Night]

Hi All~

We're attempting to create a custom profile field to indicate which of our products our contacts own.

To do this, we've created a new, numeric field, but have been unable to determine how the numbers are tied to standardized text. For example, within the pre-existing fields, for email type value '1' = html format, value '2' = plain text. We'd like to do the same with our custom field: value '0' = no product, value '1' = 'first product', etc.

However, we've been unable to determine how and if this is possible. There seem to be no data entry areas that accomplish this function, excepting for 'gender' under Settings/Forms of Salutation, and I've not seen it addressed in the forum.

Does anyone have words of wisdom?

Thanks much,

Claire

[maschoff]

This is not possible with OpenEMM.

[Starry Night]

Thanks for your response. We've gone with the simple, numeric list which is entitled as follows:

Field Name: Product
Field Name in DB: sn_product

We're now attempting to include this field in our initial subscription form, as follows:

<select name="PRODUCT">

<option value="0" selected>None</option>
<option value="1">Product A</option>

</select>


We've used the following variations on name="PRODUCT":
"sn_product"
"SN_PRODUCT"
"Product"
"column(sn_product)"

All of the standard fields in our subscription form (names, email type, etc) sende nicely to create a new, recipient profile. However, our product field does not, and regardless of user selection, the field remains set at the default value.

Any advice on offer would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks much,

Claire