Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone happened to know how I might automatically check a check box when a value is selected from a drop down menu.

If anyone has any ideas or solutions that would be great. Thank you :)

HI and welcome to this forum!

This is a bit weird in filemaker context, it has hardly anything to do with triggers.

You have a choise of ways to represent data, be it entered data or the result of a calc'field. You can have a calc field that check two or more boxes, the only thing required is that each value is separated by a pilcrow...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow

...and the fields return type is text!

However isn't there anything trigger'ish in filemaker despite 3rd party tools - known as plugins.

--sd

Well, an auto-entered calculation (with replacing) is 'triggered' by modifying a referenced field.

In other words... go to the field's options and under Auto-Enter choose Calculate Value.

You weren't specific about what you wanted.

If you want the checkbox checked when any value is chosen:

not IsEmpty( drop down )

If you want it checked for a specific value: 

drop down = "Check it!"

The checkbox should be formatted with a value list where the values are simply:

1

Well, an auto-entered calculation (with replacing) is 'triggered' by modifying a referenced field.

Well it is to some extend, but event triggers is rather this:

http://www.digitalpropulsion.org/Programming/Triggers_in_MySQL_5_0

--sd