<p>I am wanting to use ActiveScaffold to create <em>assignment</em> records for several <em>students</em> in a single step.  The records will all contain identical data, with the exception of the student_id.</p>

<p>I was able to override the default form and replace the dropdown box for selecting the student name with a multi-select box - which is what I want.  That change however, was only cosmetic, as the underlying code only grabs the first selected name from that box, and creates a single record.</p>

<p>Can somebody suggest a good way to accomplish this in a way that doesn't require my deciphering and rewriting too much of the underlying ActiveScaffold code?</p>

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<p>Update: I still haven't found a good answer to this problem.</p>

if your assingnments have
```
has_many :students
```
or
```
has_and_belongs_to_many :students
```
, then you can change the id of the multi-select box to assignment_student_ids[], and it should work.