{"id":327,"date":"2014-09-11T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T10:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/?p=327"},"modified":"2014-09-11T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T10:40:53","slug":"new-multi-selection-custom-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/2014\/09\/11\/new-multi-selection-custom-field\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Multi Selection&#8221; custom field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November 2013 we introduced the data type &#8220;<strong>Selection<\/strong>&#8221; (drop-down-list) to the custom fields (see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/en\/2013\/11\/08\/even-more-personalization-with-custom-fields\/\">blog post<\/a>). When creating a field of this kind, you or your administrator define a list of possible values. One of the values can be selected.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing repeated requests from the portatour\u00ae community we added an extended form of selection: the <strong>Multi Selection<\/strong>. This new data type allows <strong>selecting multiple values<\/strong> from a list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Multiselection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-322\" alt=\"Multiselection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portatour.com\/blog\/users\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Multiselection.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip<\/strong>: On Windows, hold the ctrl-key when clicking to select multiple elements.<\/p>\n<p><em>P.S. 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