Manage and Reorder Enumerated Values

Specify Display Text, Colors, Images, and Grouping Labels

The Enumerated Values section of the field-definition page lets you specify display-text, colors, images, and grouping labels, as well as the values returned by user selections:

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Note: These options are available only when viewing an enumerated field, not when editing it.

Click [Manage Values] to specify display text, color, images, and grouping labels.

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• Fields

Alphanumeric Characters are allowed in labels and values, including these special characters: <space> + / ' - _

• Display Label - The label to display in the list.
• Value - The actual value that is stored in a record (or returned to a program) when this item is chosen from the list.
• Image - Specify an image to display (learn more below)
• Show only Image in View mode - Whether to show the image alone, or together with the label.
• Font color - Foreground color
• Background color - Color of the area in which the text is displayed
• Use Label for grouping - The specified label becomes a heading in the list, rather than a selectable value (learn more below)

• Specify images

To specify images, first upload them to the platform as Documents. This example shows records that were created after selecting such images from a picklist:

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  Fruit and Vegetable are group labels

  Specify grouping labels

Select Use Label for Grouping to use labels for grouping, instead of making them selections, click .

This option is useful when a picklist is long, and can be organized into groups.

To be useful, the "Sort Alphabetically" box should be unchecked.

Considerations

• The Use Label for grouping option is only available for Picklists
• After the Use Label for grouping option is selected, the Sort List Alphabetically option is reset to NO
• If the Use Label for grouping option is selected, the enumerated values are not available for dependent field associations

Reorder Values

In the Enumerated Values section of the field-definition page, click [Reorder Values] to change the order in which the values appear:

Note: Reordering can be done only when the Sort List Alphabetically option is unchecked.