Generate dropdown list in Marketing Cloud

[Former Member]

Hi,

How can I make a dropdown list in Marketing Cloud: Contact? It seems to work differently than before. See attached screen shot where you can see what I want to make. We already have the dropdown list in other 'default' fields but I would like to make this for my own custom fields as well. Do you know how?

Let me know, thanks!

What I have now:

What I want:

And an extra screen shot 🙂

[KunalBansal]

Dear andyberendsen8,

The way UI is coming that way is because of coding stack is in ABAP and designed in that way.

Only way you can use the list value is by using Custom Field of type Code List.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Kunal Bansal

SAP Marketing Consultant

[Former Member]

Hi Kunal,

Thanks for your reply. How do I have to add the field? What is the most easy way to generate a dropdown list? I did it like this with the 'codelist', see below. I fill in all the needful fields and the codes/descriptions. However, in this case I can't get a simple dropdown list, but two fields separate fields.

Screen shot 1

Screen shot 2

[KunalBansal]

Hi,

Yes, you'll have to manually fill the code and description, this is one time activity.

best regards,

Kunal

[SCHNEIDERT]

Hi Andy,

as per my knowledge the value help like you already have it is the only thing thats possible for code list fields.

The Dropdown option is only available for standard fields.

Well, not 100% sure but I'm not aware of any way to get this and have never seen it for any of the custom fields before.

BR Tobias

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply Tobias. I thought it was easy to generate your own simple dropdown field 🙂

[SCHNEIDERT]

Hi andyberendsen8,

would be great, but as Kunal confirmed, unfortunately it is not possible and you can only use your Code List field as you already did.