Multiple Option Selection

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I'm trying to create a new field that allows users to select multiple options w/in one field. For example - I want to add a field that identifies which of our products compete with that of a competitor, in some instances there can be multiple products that compete - I want to be able to identify in one field all of the products.

I did find a post from about a year ago that indicated this wasn't possible w/out it requiring a ton of Java scripting, but was wondering if this had been resolved since then.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Jitendra Sahu 2 on at

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RE: Multiple Option Selection

As suggested by Ben, there is no out of box feature for now to achieve multiselect list.

But I will say multiselect internally a 1:N relationship.

You can implement this by customizing your form as per below link.

For CRM 2011/2013

mikehammons.wordpress.com/.../dynamics-crm-no-code-multi-select-picklist

For CRM 2013

www.forceworks.com/dynamics-crm-2013-feature-dive-multi-select-option-list

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Reza Farahani 290 on at

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RE: Multiple Option Selection

You can also use a fully supported method that is demonstrated in the following page (see the link at the bottom). Basically it allows you first to populate a list of items using a new custom entity and then adding it to your target entity allowing the user to select items from the list and populate a subgrid, hence multiple selection of items. Pretty clean solution and, as the writer claims, it is "future proof" since it uses only OOB features in CRM 2013. Here is the link:

www.forceworks.com/dynamics-crm-2013-feature-dive-multi-select-option-list

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Royal King 27,686 on at

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RE: Multiple Option Selection

There is a managed solution that converts picklist into multiselect checkbox where it allows you to select more than one value . This is 100 % supported customization .

Here is the link that provides all the steps required and at the end there is a link to download managed solution

slalomdotcom.wordpress.com/.../multi-select-option-sets-part-2

http://crminside.vn/community/?p=9

http://crmtipoftheday.com/2014/01/14/simple-multi-select-lists-in-crm-2013

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RE: Multiple Option Selection

The bad news is, you can do it without customization and Javascript.

Maybe you could do it with a custom entity with the various options on and then have it as a lookup on the form.

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