Hi Andrea, hope you’re doing well.

Is it possible for the choices on the ‘drop-down select box’ from the Profile Field to be chosen more than just one choice on its corresponding Profile Search form?

I got this ‘drop-down select box’ of “country” wherein users can only input/select one which is correct since they only have one country.

But on its corresponding Profile Search form, I want users to search other users by one or more than one country. So If I want to search for users coming from the US, UK, and Canada, I can get the result in just one search click instead of three.

Currently, I can only search for one country at a time by using the ‘Drop-down select box’ field. Here is the snapshot from its Profile search form: https://prnt.sc/sdz6c1

There is also an option on the Profile field called ‘Multi-Select Box’ which users can input more than one choices on the Profile Field (which user can also choose more than one on its corresponding Profile Search form), but I don’t prefer using ‘Multi-Select Box’ field because in my case it has to be only one country to begin with.

I hope it makes sense.

Thank you for your time.

Hi Daniel,

You can keep the search mode ‘is one of’, and change the check-boxes display adding this code to bp-custom.php:

add_action ('bps_field_before_search_form', 'change_display');
function change_display ($f)
{
	if ($f->code == 'field_57' && $f->display == 'checkbox')
	{
		$f->display = 'multiselectbox';
		$f->multiselect_size = 10;
	}
}

Replace 57 with the actual ID of your field, and 10 with the desired size of your multi-select box.

Hi Daniel,

Does your bp-custom.php start with <?php ?

<?php

add_action ('bps_field_before_search_form', 'change_display');
function change_display ($f)
{
	if ($f->code == 'field_57' && $f->display == 'checkbox')
	{
		$f->display = 'multiselectbox';
		$f->multiselect_size = 10;
	}
}

Hi Daniel,

You can add other fields inside the same function:

<?php

add_action ('bps_field_before_search_form', 'change_display');
function change_display ($f)
{
	if ($f->code == 'field_13' && $f->display == 'checkbox')
	{
		$f->display = 'multiselectbox';
		$f->multiselect_size = 5;
	}
	if ($f->code == 'field_574' && $f->display == 'checkbox')
	{
		$f->display = 'multiselectbox';
		$f->multiselect_size = 5;
	}
}

You’re welcome!