Practice Makes Perfect: Choice Lists Best Practices

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Your one-stop shop for best practices, our new Best Practices articles feature video tutorials and helpful guidelines to effectively accomplish your tasks. The series covers a variety of subjects, from creating system properties to setting up choice lists. In addition to our popular video tutorials, the articles highlight each best practice with easy-to-follow steps to enhance efficiency and performance. Choose to watch the video demos, or reference the best practices articles for tips. Better yet, each article provides links and examples so you know how to tackle a task before it becomes an issue.

This week's article highlights best practices for Choice Lists. Administrators and users with the personalize_choices role can define the available options for choice lists. This article discusses guidelines for setting up choice lists, including:

• Using only letters, numbers, and underscores in choice list options.
• Double-checking the Value field for special characters.
• Referencing choice lists for repetitive options.

For more information on Choice Lists, see Customizing Choice Lists.

For more Best Practices articles, see:

• Best Practices — System Properties
• Best Practices — Dictionary Overrides
  
  

To view Best Practices videos, see:

• Best Practices — Choice Lists
• Best Practices — System Properties
• Best Practices — Dictionary Overrides