Dropdown manual list seperator

[greenwellness]

Personally I feel using the pipe | operator to separate the list items a bit 'counter intuitive' since the textarea is so big, I've nearly every time used newlines on every first try, to remember it doesn't work that way. I don't know how many people submit lists of 50 or more items, but personally I think you might wanna abstract into a piece of dynamic db driven list if your static lists are becoming that long. So while pipe might be good (due to width) for text_fields_, they seem less appropriate to use inside a multirow/column text area unless frequently populated with a large amount of items.

[tzyganu]

@greenwellness OK. You have a point with the pipe separator. I will turn that into new lines.
As for the db driven lists...you can always create a separate entity instead of a dropdown with a few values, and set that entity to be a parent for your main entity. The result will be the same. You will have a dropdown field with some values in both cases. The dropdown attribute type is there in case you want to add, like you suggested, a small list of possible values.

[tzyganu]

This should be fixed in version 1.9.1.2