"empty" picklist value

Hi All,

I'm trying to create a picklist which has an empty element. This could be
used whether the user does not know which value fit to the data.
Eg. I'd like to create a picklist with the values: " ",Black, White, Yellow.

I'm not able to do this becasue a value should not be empty.

Have anyone feced to the same problem? Is there a sophisticated solution?

Thanks.

Matt
Wed Apr 06 08:34:28 CDT 2005

Why not just use the value "unknown"?

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM

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On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 05:43:05 -0700, "Borsics János"
<BorsicsJnos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying to create a picklist which has an empty element. This could be
used whether the user does not know which value fit to the data.
Eg. I'd like to create a picklist with the values: " ",Black, White, Yellow.

I'm not able to do this becasue a value should not be empty.

Have anyone feced to the same problem? Is there a sophisticated solution?

Thanks.

BorsicsJnos
Thu Apr 07 02:49:04 CDT 2005

Because if you'd like to use this field in an e-mail template the word
"unknown" would appear.

"Matt Parks" wrote:

> Why not just use the value "unknown"?
>
> Matt Parks
> MVP - Microsoft CRM
>
> ----------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 05:43:05 -0700, "Borsics János"
> <BorsicsJnos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to create a picklist which has an empty element. This could be
> used whether the user does not know which value fit to the data.
> Eg. I'd like to create a picklist with the values: " ",Black, White, Yellow.
>
> I'm not able to do this becasue a value should not be empty.
>
> Have anyone feced to the same problem? Is there a sophisticated solution?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

BorsicsJnos
Thu Apr 07 04:15:02 CDT 2005

Meanwhile I solved the problem. You do not have to create an "empty" value in
the picklist values. Just set the default value to NULL value and everythng
works fine.

"Borsics János" wrote:

> Because if you'd like to use this field in an e-mail template the word
> "unknown" would appear.
>
> "Matt Parks" wrote:
>
> > Why not just use the value "unknown"?
> >
> > Matt Parks
> > MVP - Microsoft CRM
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > ----------------------------------------
> > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 05:43:05 -0700, "Borsics János"
> > <BorsicsJnos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm trying to create a picklist which has an empty element. This could be
> > used whether the user does not know which value fit to the data.
> > Eg. I'd like to create a picklist with the values: " ",Black, White, Yellow.
> >
> > I'm not able to do this becasue a value should not be empty.
> >
> > Have anyone feced to the same problem? Is there a sophisticated solution?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >