Re: YACBQ.....(Yet another checkbox question)
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texte = Your Honor; on 8/3/00 8:28 PM, the Defendant, Bob Sneidar, confessed:> > >> >> A while ago PCS support answered a checkbox question with the following: >> >> The way you tell if a checkbox form variable is is checked looks like >> this if the value of the checkbox is T: >> [ShowIf [myCheckBox]=T] >> it was checked!
>> [/ShowIf] >> >> The way you tell if that same checkbox is unchecked looks like this: >> [ShowIf [raw][myCheckBox][/raw]=[myCheckBox]] >> it wasn't checked!
>> [/ShowIf] >> >> However, I find that when I look at the incoming formvariables for a page, >> the checkbox formvariables will be listed if the boxes were checked, but >> will not be listed if the checkbox was unchecked on the preceding page. >> >> So how can the above be made to work? > > Can't you use > > [ShowIf [myCheckBox]=F] > it was checked!
> [/ShowIf] > > or else > > [ShowIf [myCheckBox]<>T] > it was checked!
> [/ShowIf] > > Bob > no, the first example should work, because...if there is a checkbox, then [mycheckbox] becomes 'T' right? so, [raw][mycheckbox][/raw] doesn't equal 'T'if there is no variable named [mycheckbox] then when webcat looks at that, it ends up with nothing and so just displays [mycheckbox] exactly.[raw][mycheckbox][/raw] essentially just makes the stuff inside [raw] display exactly as typed, so [mycheckbox]=[mycheckbox]Does that make sense?HTH-Aaron ****************************************************************** * Digital Speed Networks, and NineWire Productions have merged!! * * We are now NineWire Digital Solutions * * * ******************************************************************------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Your Honor; on 8/3/00 8:28 PM, the Defendant, Bob Sneidar, confessed:> > >> >> A while ago PCS support answered a checkbox question with the following: >> >> The way you tell if a checkbox form variable is is checked looks like >> this if the value of the checkbox is T: >> [ShowIf [myCheckBox]=T] >> it was checked!
>> [/ShowIf] >> >> The way you tell if that same checkbox is unchecked looks like this: >> [ShowIf [raw][myCheckBox][/raw]=[myCheckBox]] >> it wasn't checked!
>> [/ShowIf] >> >> However, I find that when I look at the incoming formvariables for a page, >> the checkbox formvariables will be listed if the boxes were checked, but >> will not be listed if the checkbox was unchecked on the preceding page. >> >> So how can the above be made to work? > > Can't you use > > [ShowIf [myCheckBox]=F] > it was checked!
> [/ShowIf] > > or else > > [ShowIf [myCheckBox]<>T] > it was checked!
> [/ShowIf] > > Bob > no, the first example should work, because...if there is a checkbox, then [mycheckbox] becomes 'T' right? so, [raw][mycheckbox][/raw] doesn't equal 'T'if there is no variable named [mycheckbox] then when webcat looks at that, it ends up with nothing and so just displays [mycheckbox] exactly.[raw][mycheckbox][/raw] essentially just makes the stuff inside [raw] display exactly as typed, so [mycheckbox]=[mycheckbox]Does that make sense?HTH-Aaron ****************************************************************** * Digital Speed Networks, and NineWire Productions have merged!! * * We are now NineWire Digital Solutions * * * ******************************************************************------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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