Select field with configurable options through PW.

[zgjonbalaj]

Hello,

I am wondering if i could get some feedback to see how to approach this simple problem and what the best practice is through PW. I currently have a site that has "Portfolio Companies" as pages, each portfolio company has 3 attributes "Status" , "Sector" & "Transaction". I'd like to have in the backend the ability for the user to select multiple options for each attribute. For example "Company A" belongs in 2 sectors and its status is "One" and has no transaction attribute.

My approach to this would normally have been create a page under the root called "Filters" that is hidden and create 3 subpages named after each of the filters and for each of those subpages create the necessary options as subpages. Then i would create a multiple page select field for each filter that is bound to those subpages. 

This works and is fine however I am wondering if there is a better way and if this is the right way to do it after all. In the front end i would output this as a dropdown.  I downloaded a select field dropdown module but does not allow multiple options to be selected.

Any ideas, suggestion greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[LostKobrakai]

If you're using the current stable version then pages are the best way to take. If you're on the dev version you could also use the new fieldset options. It's a lighter alternative to creating pages just for providing options, but more flexible as the select dropdown module.

[zgjonbalaj]

If you're using the current stable version then pages are the best way to take. If you're on the dev version you could also use the new fieldset options. It's a lighter alternative to creating pages just for providing options, but more flexible as the select dropdown module.

Thanks for your reply, just got it all set-up. You wouldn't happen to know how i can pull all the options available in each select options field directly?