summary of checkboxes

[dr.stitch]

Hello. I am working on a research project which tracks ethnicities of our subjects among many other things.

The database that I was given to work with has a separate field for each ethnicity and is displayed as a checkbox. For example, in one record, "African American" has its own checkbox, "Filipino" has its own checkbox, "Hawaiian" has its own checkbox, etc.

I am trying to create a report where I can summarize each subjects' ethnicity in one textbox. So if a subject has the "African American", "Filipino", "Hawaiian" checkbox marked, it would show up in an i.e. ETHNICITY field I have created as comma-delimited text.

So under ETHNICITY, I would have: African American, Filipino, Hawaiian.

It seems I need to perform a loop of some sort, but not sure if that is the best way of approaching this. Please help!

[mr_vodka]

You should just be able to use a calc.

Substitute ( List ( AfricanCheck; FilipinoCheck; HawaiianCheck ); "¶"; ", " )

[dr.stitch]

Thank you for your help! This code, however, returns the value of the checkbox (i.e. 1, 1, 1 if the African American, Filipino, Hawaiian checkboxes are marked) rather than the actual name of the ethnicity.

So basically what I'd like show up in the field ETHNICITY are:

African American, Filipino, Hawaiian rather than numbers.

Any other suggestions? }:(

[-Queue-]

Something like

LeftWords( Case( AfricanCheck, "African, " ) & Case( FilipinoCheck, "Filipino, " ) & Case( HawaiianCheck, "Hawaiian" ), 9 )

should work.

[dr.stitch]

You're wonderful! It works perfectly. Thank you! }:(