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Drop Down Field: Searchable

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Posted Apr 23, 2018

The Drop Down field is limited to scrolling and selecting the values. It would be great to have an integrated search to allow end-users to start typing the value they're looking for to filter out others.

 


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We would likewise adore this component. We are as of now attempting to bring a QA cycle into Zendesk, which includes a drop-down list with 200+ things. We're utilizing this structure for inside representatives to make a pass to do some quality mind some other work we outside of Zendesk.

The advantage to the drop-down list is that we can write about it, in case it was a book field, we were unable to give an account of that to discover normal subjects.

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In addition to adding this feature to drop downs on a Help Center form, this same feature would greatly simplify finding the right field on the criterion list in configuring an automation. Of course alphabetizing that list would be a huge help - please see similar request: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4405633353114-Alphabetize-custom-fields-on-Automation-config-screen

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We would love to see this update as well. Forcing our customers to scroll through a huge list of values is not great.

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Any roadmap for this?

I need drop down search feature. Is there any workaround for this now?  

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We would also like to see, as this is a very useful feature. Users are finding it hard to scroll through the huge list and it is time consuming currently.

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This already exists for Triggers, all that's missing are Automations and Views. It looks like a quick win, but I'm guessing it's more complicated than it seems.

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Confronting same issue in our executions also. We have dropdown list have more than 100+ qualities and its extremely challenging for the client to look through and select the right one.

Zendesk item supervisory group - you ought not sit tight for getting more votes rather you really want to look how much worth add to the client and address this in the impending deliveries.

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I'd like to see this too, our support form for customers has a drop down with many options to click through, would be great to have a drop-down field that acted like a drop down, but also searchable like in the Agent dashboard

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Hi all! I also vote for this option as a list of 250 items is very inconvenient for our customers.

 

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Hi Dev Team! Is this problem considered as an important one and is planned for implementation?

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I would be a feature that adds great value to the customer experience in the help center, we look forward to it

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+1 - Would be game-changing.

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+1 As a Zendesk partner I help implement Zendesk with customers. I've had a number of customers that use large amounts of values in dropdowns on end user facing forms.

Without a searchable/type ahead feature for dropdown fields, the end user (customer) experience is poor. Often battle to create a reason why Zendesk doesn't have this feature by default especially when it's on the agent side.

Really need this feature.

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Kenneth Morris

Zendesk Luminary

Hello I too am also looking to see this updated. I spent an hour with an agent and he told me lots of us are needing this. Lets make it happen please.

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Is there any update on this , I really need this now as my list is getting into the thousands and asking customers to scroll through these in 2022 is a bit ridiculous 

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Will it be fixed withing 5 years?

 

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Incorrect information, we are still waiting for a fix (in Zendesk for agents this is possible, however end-users are not able to do this on the webform side).

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Gorka Cardona-Lauridsen

Zendesk Product Manager

We have added this to our roadmap and we expect to enable this as part of other improvements to the request form that we are targeting to release in H2 2022. As all roadmap plans this is always subject to change and only reflects our current intention and expectation.

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We definitely need this also!  Not being able to search through a large number of document references means that we cannot use a dropdown field at all, and instead leave the field as free-text, which can lead to errors and misunderstandings.  Please do implement this improvement as soon as possible! 

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Gorka Cardona-Lauridsen Any update on this now that we are deep in H2 of 2022?

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Where does this stand?  It is greatly needed!

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Gorka Cardona-Lauridsen

Zendesk Product Manager

Hi all, unfortunately, I have to inform you that our work on this feature has been delayed relative to the expectation in my latest update. We are still planning to introduce search in dropdowns as part of a revamp of the ticket form, but the current outlook is that it will happen in H1 2023.


As with my previous update, all roadmap plans are always subject to change and only reflect our current intention and expectation.

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this feature is definitely needed, any update as we are now in the middle of H1 2023 ?

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Hello,

We have the same requirement as we use a lot of different drop-downs for end-user facing forms and some of them have quite a lot of entries (the typical case is the Country field). It could be great to have a searchable / type ahead drop-down, but not only for single-select but also for multi-select field (here another post covering the multi-select fields although without many votes: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4409222720538-External-Facing-Forms-Multi-Select-Drop-down-Fields-Allow-Type-Ahead). I hope that both types of fields are covered when this gets implemented.

Looking forward to this functionality for our forms.

Thanks and regards, Alfredo

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justin

Zendesk Luminary

Is there any update on this feature? It's a significant blocker for us. 

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Forms have no search capability AND it is not possible to auto-sort them in the dropdown.

This makes it SUPER tedious to pick the right one as an agent.

WE NEED THIS ASAP

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Hey Gorka Cardona-Lauridsen

Do you have an update on when this will be released? Your latest indication was H2 2022 which has been and gone now. 

It would be really appreciative if you could provide us all with an update on when we can expect to see this being rolled out for use in Zendesk :)

Best,

Amie

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It's been over 5 years since this post... surely if it was rocket science you would have been done by now?

H2 2022 has come and gone, Q1 2023 has come and gone, and we're nearing the end of Q2 2023.

You already have a functioning searchable field in the admin center, and you're not creating something no one had done before: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist

Can we get some traction on this please?

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Gorka Cardona-Lauridsen

Zendesk Product Manager

Hi all, unfortunately, I have to inform you again that our work on this feature has been delayed relative to the expectation in my most recent update.

We have been working on this feature in Q2 and will continue to work on it in Q3 and likely Q4 2023 as part of a major update to the request form.  This means that the current ETA is the second half of Q4 2023.

The reason it is taking so long is that the current request form has several accessibility issues and we have determined that the best way to fix them is to reimplement the request form from scratch to meet Zendesks commitment to accessibility.
Reimplementing the request form is in itself a large undertaking that requires extensive internal QA and since we are reimplementing a large surface area and fixing accessibility issues we are also having an external accessibility audit conducted before we release it.

As with my previous update, all roadmap plans are always subject to change and only reflect our current intention and expectation.

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Gorka Cardona-Lauridsen

Any updates on this feature? Is this ever going to be implemented? Thank you. 

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