IWP 7 and displaying check boxes

[Steve St-Laurent]

Is FM7 IWP's handling of check boxes as pathetic as it appears? I have a solution with user-defined values and check boxes. Because the values are user-defined, there is no fixed number. So far so good. When displayed via IWP the check boxes are all over the place. It pretty goes box-value-box-value-box-value, wrapping the stuff as if it were mere text.

On small stuff, with just a few choices, I've learned that you can put several iterations of the field on the layout, each with its own value. But obviously this won't work with an unknown number of unknown values.

Is this where IWP rubber hits the pavement?

[CyborgSam]

Value lists displayed as checkboxes or radio buttons in IWP fill field space horizontally first, then vertically, whereas FileMaker client fills space vertically first and horizontally second.

This is because checkboxes and Radio buttons are displayed using the web browser’s built in checkboxes and radio button functions. Because of this, also expect differences in spacing, size, shading, style, etc.

Note: web users (IWP clients) cannot add to nor edit Value Lists.

[javierinSFO]

Actually, after many weeks of playing around I figured out a way to display Checkboxes and Radio buttons perfectly in IWP. I do online surveys and you can only imagine with all the checkboxes, radio buttons I was ready to begin coding in Custom Publishing. So one late night I tried probably about 100 different things from encoding HTML in the page to javascript.

The solution was so simple and yet it took weeks to figure out! You will be amazed how simple it is to get to work. Anybody can do it and you just follow one guideline and bam they work perfectly.

Email me and I will send instructions.

Javier

JVillalobos Consulting

[email protected]

[Søren Dyhr]

I'm just guessing here, wouldn't cutting a set up in indiviual oneliners do the trick??

--sd

[FMWebschool]

Let's say you want to have four

values for the check boxes. Add the field to the layout four times. Create a separate

value list for each value. Then assign a different value list to each of the four fields.

Field 1 add value list color 1

Field 1 add value list color 2

Field 1 add value list color 3

Field 1 add value list color 4

That's all it is too it.

[javierinSFO]

Everybody - I have gotten quite a few emails from people desparate for a solution to this problem. So I created a quick tutorial on how to get checkboxes and radio buttons to display correctly everytime Mac and PC using valuelists. The solution is so simple... you are going to be amazed.

Here is the URL:

http://jvillalobos.com:16080/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=IWPFixDemo&-loadframes