checkbox/radio button solution

[raingirl]

There have been other posts about how to best display checkboxes and radio buttons. Another poster suggested putting a simple carriage return between values ---this works great if you are using static custom values. However, there are many times when we need to use value lists from dynamic information.

Here is one solution that I came up with - it is not elegant but it is easy. I find that IWP needs a lot of workarounds at this point.

1) Create your value list using a field. If you want to display info. from more than one field or want to filter only certain records, just create an indexed calculation to show. (since you cannot display a second field or show related records)

2) Create a radio button set, hide the words by changing the text color and make the field box only wide enough to just show the buttons.

3) Create a portal that displays the same information, sorted the same. Put them side by side and voila!

I feel like I am in kindergarten and I just discovered a new use for paste...ha ha.

[BrentHedden]

Yea, it sounds like it'll work. But boy, what a CRAZY way of doing it!

[raingirl]

no kidding! 3 steps forward, 2 steps back!