Form Dropdowns not Matching Custom Display View

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My dropdown fields in my form work fine, they are saved correctly to form entry.  The problem is the “Custom Display” I created for that form.  Some of the dropdown values are displaying wrong. In this instance, “Inspection Type” and “Bathrooms”.   I have tripled checked that the ID’s are correct in the custom display.  I inserted the via the dropdown.  Any other ideas?

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Method of Payment is also wrong

These are the field values. They are also used for calculations for the "quoted price" field.

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The problem is your saved values are duplicated. This is similar to having the same field option multiple times in the same field. Formidable doesn't know the difference between the saved Value 300 for General and the saved value 300 for General and Termite. These are considered the same thing. So in order to resolve this issue, you need to remove any duplicated saved values on each field.

How do you recommend I do that?

General | 300

General and Termite | 300

Would this problem be the same for checkboxes?

Thanks

For some reason when I edit the form it shows the right values, unless I'm getting lucky.

Yes, general 300 and general and termite 300 is what you need to use.

And to answer your question on whether you will run into the same limitation with checkboxes, the answer is yes. Regardless of the field type saved values (or field options if you aren't saving separate values) need to be different from each other.

Yes, general 300 and general and termite 300 is what you need to use.

I don't understand, can you please elaborate? I have 32 forms each with unique calculations, so any help or direction is really appreciated. I have been sweating this one out.

Thanks again

The video on this page may help. It is in reference to our PayPal add-on, but it covers these types of calculations. Just ignore the PayPal references. http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/formidable-paypal/

So if your saved value is General 300, the value to be calculated is 300. To avoid having the same saved values (ie 300 and 300), you need to differentiate them. For example, "General 300" and "General and Termite 300". This way 300 is the calculated value for each of these options, but the saved value is still unique so Formidable knows which option was selected.

Wow! Thanks Steve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so happy now :)

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