Do you want to save a separate value for the options to be saved in the database then the value shown to users in checkbox, radio and dropdown options of forms. This can come handy in a lot of situations.
Consider you are asking for a user’s work experience as an IT developer. You want to know whether the user is a fresher, junior or senior developer. So, you could ask them about their work experience in a number of years but save the value in your own terminology ( fresher, junior or senior ) in the database.
So, option labels and values could look like these
- Label Value
- 0 Years Fresher
- 1-3 Years Junior
- More than 3 years Senior
Steps to Enable values in Checkbox, Radio & Dropdown Options of WPForms
- Download Booster for WPForms addon from the official WordPress plugin repository.
- Now go to WPForms > Settings > Booster and check the setting ‘ Checkbox, Radio Dropdown field values’.
- Now open the form editor for form in which you want to use field values. Under advanced field options of your checkbox, radio or dropdown fields you can ‘check ‘ show values option.
- Now you will have the option to add values beneath labels of options.
- You can now save your form.
How to show Option values in Confirmation Message or Notification Emails?
- By default, the confirmation message or notification email will show the option label instead of option value if you are using the {all_fields} smart tag.
- To show the option value you have to explicitly use {field_value_id=”X”} tag.
- Here replace X with the actual field id for which you have enabled options value. This will instruct WPForms to use the field value instead of the field tag.
- If you have any doubts or something is not working as expected then you can leave a comment below and we will get back to you with a solution.
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