dropdown - require user to choose an option

If you want to force a user to make a selection, and not allow them to select the first option which would act as a placeholder and say "Select One" you can do so by following these instructions.

- Edit your form
- Add a Drop Down field to your form
- Edit this new Drop Down field
- Give this field a Field Label
- Check the "enable values" checkbox
- Give the very first choice in the list of choices a label of "Select One" and leave it's value EMPTY
- Make sure all choices below it have the value field populated for each choice
- Check the "Required" checkbox under the Rules
- Save your form

These same steps apply if you have an existing drop down you want to modify to do this.

What this does is it makes the field required, which means the choice selected must have a value. Because the first choice is a placeholder that says "Select One" (or whatever you want it to say) and does not have a value... it won't allow the user to select it and will force them to make a selection.

I am including a screenshot of a Drop Down configured following these instructions. You can view it here: http://i.imgur.com/JEObb.png