Populate drop-downs from free text fields.

Hi all,
I have a problem which I can't quite get my head around.
Currently I have a flowed form, and among others, a free text field named 'sectors'. Attached to this field are some + and - buttons which use instance manager to add or remove more 'sectors' rows.
Once all the sectors have been added, I would like users to then be able to be able to select from drop-down lists elsewhere in the form that are populated from the 'sectors' items.
Im thinking that I need to add another button to the 'sectors' row, which might add the item to the required drop-down, but im not really sure how to do this as my JS really isn't that great!
Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Lachlan.

Hi Stephen,
I would say that the this.rawValue=null; is necessary.
If in my example you comment out the null line. Then select the Fruit checkbox and Apple from the dropdown:
Now if the user goes back and deselects Fruit and instead selects Cars, when they open the dropdown the script clears the Fruit options and adds the Car options (everything okay there). However the value of the dropdown is still fruit_001, even though this is not an option in the list. If the user exists the dropdown without making a new selection, you could have a value displayed that does not relate to the correct choices:
So I would say that the this.rawValue=null; is not redundant at all.
In the null pattern for a dropdown: http://assure.ly/gcXx03, I actually null and clear the Relationship dropdown as soon as the user makes a selection in the Gender dropdown.
Maybe have a look and test before you go back on your existing forms.
Niall

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