Dropdown widget does not work

Hi Lilybiri,

Thank you for the link to the blog post! I will read through it and see if I can figure it out.

The slide has 5 dropdowns with many items in each list. Basically, I need to cram in some 500 job titles on the slide and dropdown widget is the only way I figured that it would be possible. 

For the Add button, the action script looks like this: 

And the JavaScript to populate the list of interesting job titles look like this:

try{

var selR1 = cp.vm.getVariableValue("selectionR1");
var selR2 = cp.vm.getVariableValue("selectionR2");
var selR3 = cp.vm.getVariableValue("selectionR3");
var selR4 = cp.vm.getVariableValue("selectionR4");
var selR5 = cp.vm.getVariableValue("selectionR5");

var nSR1 = cp.vm.getVariableValue("sR1");

var list = [selR1, selR2, selR3, selR4, selR5];

list.unshift(nSR1);
list.pop();

cp.vm.setVariableValue("selectionR1", list[0]);
cp.vm.setVariableValue("selectionR2", list[1]);
cp.vm.setVariableValue("selectionR3", list[2]);
cp.vm.setVariableValue("selectionR4", list[3]);
cp.vm.setVariableValue("selectionR5", list[4]);

} catch(error) {
console.error(error);
}

What happens is that the error blocks the list from updating. When I open and then close the code inspector in Chrome the list updates so that the last item selected appear at the top of the list, as it should. 

Do you know if there any type of character that is not allowed in a list item, like em dash?