Managing Drop Lists

In this article we will review how to customize your drop lists to meet the needs of your organization, simplify data entry, and help maintain data integrity.

If you do not have an Administration icon in your “Tasks” drop down or in your Account tab, you do not have permissions to access this element. For each myLab site there is one Master User that always has this permission, and they can assign it to additional users.

Accessing Drop List Manager

• On the myLab Home screen, click on the “Account” tab (A) or the “Administration” icon in the Tasks dropdown.
• Click on “Administration” (B) in the next menu.

• Click on “Manage Drop Lists”

• myLab gives you the ability to add custom entries to your drop lists as well as hide ones you don’t use.
• On the left you have a list of drop lists. The plus sign indicates the drop lists you can add custom entries to.

Adding Custom Entry

To review how to add a custom entry to a drop list, we will walk through an example to add a Unit Area called Truck Stop.

• On the drop list menu, select the list you would like to customize. As noted, the only drop lists you can add custom entries to are those with a “+” sign. For this example we are clicking on “Unit Areas”.

• Once you click on the selected list, you will see on the right panel the currently defined list items.
  • The default list items are shown in light grey.
  • These list items cannot be modified or deleted, only hidden by clicking the check box.
• To add a custom entry, click “Add Item” (green button at bottom of list).

• In the pop-up box, type in your custom list entry and click “Add”.

• The new entry will be added to the end of the drop list (A). Custom entries are shown in black and can be modified, deleted, and hidden.
• To hide any list items, click the check boxes beside the item (B).
• Once you’ve completed all of your changes, click “Save” (C).