Creating Picklists for Distributor Applications

Delectable Bonsai wants to collect information to help them assess the relative value of each business opportunity. In this case, they want applicants to select from predefined options. You can achieve this using Liferay picklists.

Picklists are predefined lists of string values that determine options in single-select and multiple-select fields. Delectable Bonsai needs these lists for the Distributor Application object:

• Business Types
• Distribution Regions
• Distribution Channels
• Order Types
• Product Types
• Annual Purchase Volumes
• Product Labels

Here you’ll create the first picklist via the Liferay UI.

1. Open the Global Menu ( ), go to the Control Panel tab, and click Picklists.

2. Click Add ( ), enter Business Types for name, and click Save.

   

3. Begin editing the picklist.

4. Click Add ( ) and add these items to the picklist:

   Name	Key
   Independent Business	independentBusiness
   Franchise	franchise
   Other	other

5. Edit each item and set their ERCs to these values:

   External Reference Code
   BUSINESS_TYPE_INDEPENDENT_BUSINESS
   BUSINESS_TYPE_FRANCHISE
   BUSINESS_TYPE_OTHER

   

6. Change the Picklist’s ERC to LIST_BUSINESS_TYPES.

   

7. Click Save.

Once saved, you can use this picklist as a field in the Distributor Application object.

Before you do that, Delectable Bonsai needs six more picklists. But instead of creating these lists manually, you’ll create them programmatically using the headless-admin-list-type REST APIs.

Next: Creating Picklists Using REST APIs

Relevant Concepts

• Picklists