List Function

["... you mean these fans?"]

Hi,

 

I have a customer that is asking to "comment" out next to each "List Item" that I generate base on the "selected" check boxes.

 

So I placed the "field" that carries the check boxes ( value list ) in the "List" function;

 

List ( Finishing_CheckList )

 

The above function works perfectly.  All I am asking for, is there a way to provide my user with a way to comment out next to each item in the list ...

 

Apple … comment 1

Pear … comment 2

Peach … comment 3

 

When I add a comment field, whether inside the function or outside the function ...

 

List ( Finishing_CheckList )& " " & Finishing_Finishing Information

 

The "comment" is listed at the bottom of the "LIST".

 

Not what the customer wants.  They want to comment next to each "Listed" item.

 

Any suggestions, guidance, wisdom.

 

I would be grateful.

 

Thank you.

 

Tom :-)

[comment]

For one thing, List ( Finishing_CheckList ) does nothing.  List () is an aggregate function and List ( Field ) is the same thing as Field.

 

The other thing is that using a checkbox is a quick way to join multiple attributes to a single object. However, this is possible only when specific joins have no attributes of their own. When this condition is not satisfied - e.g. when you need to record a comment regarding a specific object-attribute combination - that's when you need to abandon the checkbox and move to a proper many-to-many implementation, using a join table.

["... you mean these fans?"]

Comment,

 

Thank you for the insight.  I took off the value list assignment on a second instance of the "Finishing_Checklist" and you are correct.  the "List" function does nothing.

 

In the absent of a proper parent / child relationship …. you get a problem child.

 

Another table … omg!

["... you mean these fans?"]

Comment,

 

If I could ask for some more guidance here ??

 

I put in the table as suggested, and gave the customer a portal to select each value via a drop down list with a "Comment" field.  However the customer has stated that it is to time consuming to click into the value list.  The customer has requested to put the individual "Radial" buttons ( 20 + ) back on the layout and has requested to try and find a way to list the "Radial" selection ( which you've demonstrated ) but along with it's "Comment" field next to it, hmm … ?

 

The customer has an additional field for comments, but this field is a general comment for "ALL" radial button values.  And we are adding this "Additional Comment" field to the end of the "LIst" which is doable.

 

The only issue is commenting out each "Radial" and the only way I can think how to do this, is by creating single fields for each radial value with an associated comment fields … Radial 1, RComment 1, Radial 2, RComment 2 ...

 

Any wisdom, guidance, suggestions.

 

I would be grateful.

 

Thank you.

 

Tom :-)

[comment]

I am afraid you have lost me there, Tom.

 

The only issue is commenting out each "Radial"

 

If - as I suggested - each choice is a separate record, then commenting on the (single) choice in a field of that record should solve this issue, no?

 

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Two semantic notes:

 

1. Radio buttons, not radial.

2. In computer programming, "commenting out" means disabling a part of the code by making it a comment, e.g.:

3 /* + 4 */ + 5

where the + 4 part is commented out, so the result is 8.