Maximum number of choices in a Reference field

[nealratner]

We are setting up a regional component on a form so that when a user selects a country, they can select a state (dependent) from that country.   We are running into an issue in that we believe the number of US states is too many and causing our droplist to change into a "lookup."   We are using a reference table for choice lists, and this works fine with all other fields except this one.   We tried to utilize the glide.xmlhttp.max_choices attribute, but that is only for "system" selections and not for a standard field.   Is there some way to set up a reference/choice list so that it can have 50+ selctions?   I'm assuming it would have to scroll.   Hopefully this is some simple attribute we just haven't been able to find yet...

[Michael Fry1]

Can you screen shot the dictionary view for those fields?

[nealratner]

This is the exact same configuration we have for our other fields that work.   When we change this reference to a shorter list <25, it works as expected.

[Michael Fry1]

I really don't see any issues and we have reference fields with 100s of choices with no issues.

Under Choice List Specification tab:     Choice, try setting that to - - None - - and see if that has an affect.

[nealratner · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael, We are in Helsinki if that matters.   I tried the --None-- previously and all other options.   We just tried adding the attribute max_ref_dropdown and set it equal to 100 and it worked.