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I'm developing a custom search, and the one part I can't figure out is how to include a custom field in the form. We have a custom field composed of about 50 items accessible via a select menu. I can see how to do it for something in the Core by looking at examples:

$stateProvince = array('' => ts('- any state/province -')) + CRM_Core_PseudoConstant::stateProvince( );
        $form->addElement('select', 'state_province_id', ts('State/Province'), $stateProvince);
but what about for custom data?

Brian

Hi bpm

I'm having the same problem you did, but I cannot figure out what you figured out - even with your solution right there. Maybe you can elaborate a bit.

I have a custom field defined for the subtype "Student" which I would like to include in the form - it's a multiple select menu, like in your case.
Usually when accessing custom fields in the code, I would call it with something like "custom_28" where 28 is the id of the custom field.
From your example I have no idea of which things to exchange with my own variables.
I would be very happy if you could tell which of them to change; 'option_group_name', "name"?

Thanks in advance for any help