Custom droplists

Prerequisite: To configure custom droplists, you must be assigned the DATAADM access code.

About custom droplists

There are five types of custom fields: text, date, decimal, integer, and droplist. In this section, you will learn how to create a new custom droplist that is relevant to your organization.

Each droplist must have at least one value. Therefore, you create a custom droplist, and then you create its values.

Important:

  • To have a custom droplist as an additional available field on the WorkZone Client user interface, you must create a custom droplist, and then you must create a custom field. Only custom fields appear on the Available fields panel.
  • Droplist values are sorted by codes. Order of creation is disregarded. Consider this characteristic if the order of values matters.

Create a custom droplist

  1. On the start page, select Global.
  2. On the Custom droplists tab, click Create droplist.

  3. Fill in the following fields in the Create custom droplist dialog box:

    • Label by default – The default name that is visible when you add a new custom field.
    • Code – The code in the database.
    • Localize label – Optionally, specify names in other languages.
    • Selectable - Enable to make this value selectable for the WorkZone Client users.
      Note: Non-selectable values can still be set as the default values and will be visible to the users in WorkZone Client, but users will not be able to select them (or to re-add them, if the user has changed the non-selectable default value to something else).
    • Start date –  The date when the custom droplist becomes active. Before the start date, the custom droplist is invisible on the user interface.
    • End date – The date when the custom droplist is deactivated. After the end date, the custom droplist becomes invisible on the user interface.
  4. Click Save.

Edit a custom droplist

  1. Select a droplist that you want to edit from the drop-down list on the top.
  2. Click Edit droplist.
  3. Apply the required changes in the Edit custom droplist dialog box.
    Note: You cannot edit the Label by default and Code values.
  4. Click Save.

Delete a custom droplist

You can only delete a droplist if it is not used in any custom field.

  1. Select a droplist that you want to delete from the drop-down list on the top.
  2. Click Delete droplist.

Create a droplist value

  1. Select a droplist to which you want to add a value.
  2. In the bottom-right corner of the page, click Create.

  3. Fill in the following fields in the Create custom droplist value dialog box:

    • Label by default – The default name that is visible for users.
    • Code – The code in the database.
    • Localize label – Optionally, specify names in other languages.
    • Rank – A user-defined ranking of the properties. The rank is used to determine the sort order of the drop-down list for the property with 0 being the highest rank or top-most option in the drop-down list. Identical or empty rank numbers will be sorted in descending alphabetical order..
    • Selectable - Disable to make this value non-selectable for the users in WorkZone Client or WorkZone 365.
      Note: Non-selectable values can still be set as the default values and will be visible to the users in WorkZone Client or WorkZone 365, but users will not be able to select them (or to re-add them, if the user has changed a non-selectable default value to something else).
    • Start date –  The date when the droplist value becomes active. Before the start date, the droplist value is invisible on the user interface.
    • End date – The date when the droplist value is deactivated. After the end date, the droplist value becomes invisible on the user interface.
  4. Click Save.

Edit a droplist value

  1. Select a droplist on which you want to edit a value.
  2. Point to the desired value, and click Edit.
  3. Apply the required changes in the Edit custom droplist value dialog box.
    Note: You cannot edit the Label by default and Code values.
  4. Click Save.

Delete a droplist value

You can only delete a droplist value if it has not yet been used by WorkZone Client users.

  1. Select a droplist from which you want to delete a value.
  2. Point to the desired value, and click Delete, and then click Delete.