Select fields with group names in Drupal 7? When you make a select list on a webform module you get the option to group values by a group name or category: "Option groups for lists and menus may be specified with . &lt;> can be used to insert items at the root of the menu after specifying a group." Reference : http://drupal.org/node/325766 -> "Entering options through the interface"

Is this something I can do with the defualt node select fields aka (list module) ie. http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/list ? I have never heard of it but it would be nice. I have to make a list of working group positions on my site and I have 3 groups each with it's own group name, Hospital, Dental and Physicians and I am trying to figure out the best way to list these groups and their positions in a nice select value widget, I was thinking of using taxonomy but it's not really the same thing as what I want.
You can do that if you use php to generate the allowed values, as you have already read in Select fields with group names?. However, that feature did not go into Drupal core when most of the CCK module for Drupal 6 was included in Drupal 7. The D7 version of CCK tries to provide this feature. As the module page says, it contains: 


  some miscellaneous helpers to do things that core will not do, like maintain the PHP code snippets some fields may have been using to define allowed values (partially working)