Steven Zahm@ reyes
re: My desire is to minimize subcategories on the Main Directory page, select a category from that page and be linked to the appropriate page that contains the category and it’s subcategories (e.g., States, Federal Agencies, etc.).
Thank you for the very detailed explaination, that helps tremendously! The part I was not getting was selecting a category should take you a different page and that destination page will depend on the category chosen from the drop down.
It is possible to change the destination page when selecting a category… but it is not possible to have multiple destination pages based on the category selected. Well, it is possible, but it would require some custom coding of javascript to change the form action based on the drop down choice. I do provide custom development solutions nut if you’d like to give a go yourself, here’s a Google search query with results that give examples of how to dynically change a forms action:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jquery+change+form+action+based+on+select+choice
Hope that helps!