SharepointPlus<\/a>. It will hide the “Specify your own value” stuff, and add the old value (if any) into the dropdown selection.<\/p>\nFor example if you have a Choice field with options “A”, “B”, “C”. Your item ID #1 has value “B”.
\nAfter a while you decide to delete “B” and add “D”, but you want to be able to find items with the “B” value.
\nSo you choose “Choice with Fill-In” and apply the below code:<\/p>\n
\r\n\/\/ For flexibility reasons we create them as a Choice with Fill-In option,\r\n\/\/ however we hide the free text field and we show only the dropdown\r\n\/\/ in case of the fill-in has a value, then we add it into the list of options\r\n$SP().formfields([\"My Fist Dropdown\", \"Another One\"]).each(function() {\r\n var $e = this.elem();\r\n \/\/ hide all except the dropdown\r\n \/\/$e.not('select').hide().filter(':radio:last').closest('tr').hide(); \/\/ SP2010\r\n $e.eq(0).closest('table').find('tr:gt(0)').hide(); \/\/ SP2013\r\n \/\/ if we have a value into the fill-in box, then:\r\n \/\/ - add it into the options\r\n \/\/ - when another value is selected we check the first checkbox\r\n var fillValue = $e.last().val();\r\n if (fillValue) {\r\n $e.filter('select').append('<option data-fillin=\"true\">'+fillValue+'<\/option>').each(function() {\r\n var $this=$(this);\r\n $this.find('option:last').prop(\"selected\", true);\r\n $this.removeAttr(\"onclick\").on('change', function(event) {\r\n var $opt = $(this).find(':selected');\r\n if ($opt.data(\"fillin\")) {\r\n $e.filter(':radio:last').prop(\"checked\", true);\r\n } else {\r\n $e.filter(':radio:first').prop(\"checked\", true);\r\n }\r\n });\r\n });\r\n }\r\n})\r\n<\/pre>\nSo now, if you create a new item you’ll see a dropdown with “A”, “C”, and “D” only.
\nBut if you edit your item #1, you’ll have a dropdown with “A”, “C”, “D” and “B”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes you want to modify the options for a dropdown box by removing some existing options, however you want to be able to keep these old values for reporting or whatever reasons. Below is a way to do it by using jQuery and SharepointPlus. It will hide the “Specify your own value” stuff, and add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,170,13,33],"tags":[123,24,152,158,117],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astuce","category-english","category-niveau-intermediaire","category-programmation","tag-english","tag-javascript","tag-niveau-intermediaire","tag-programmation","tag-sharepoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}