restrict input to one or more values

Hi all,

I am very new to CB and just getting up to speed with this powerful and somewhat daunting extensions, so your patience is appreciated.

I need to restrict input on a given text field to one or more of around a dozen values.

The ideal way to do that would be my means of a pop-up menu which one could check one or more values. I don't see that functionality in the base CB, so one option might be to use a combination of a regex and a tooltip.

Alternately, are there any CB plugins which might do this?

Thanks

Following up my own message:

It might be useful if I try to explain what I am doing here; maybe others have ideas on how to best go about what I am trying to do.

I am the webmaster of a small professional organization (~ 400 members) of translators and editors.

I would like to set up the profile editor to enable individuals to enter their fields of expertise and restrict this to around a dozen top-level categories (Science, medicine, finance, business, etc). The purpose of this is to make it easier further down the road to set up a public userlist which would enable visitors to locate our members based on field of expertise.

Another approach to what I mentioned above would be simply making each of these fields of expertise a separate field and restricting input to Y or N. (radio buttons would be even better, but I don't seem that possibility here.

Any thoughts?

Did you find the answer to your questions? You can look at the registration on
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