Check box group question

You just need to set the default value in your model, then the corresponding (e.g. Choice 2 for Ex1, and Choice 2/Choice 3 for Ex 2 will be checked automatically).

Frank

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Dr. Yankui(Frank) Feng
Digital Library Systems Developer
The University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904-434507
Email: yf508 at york.ac.uk
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From: Ozakca, Muzaffer [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 15 October 2008 22:19
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Check box group question

Hi, I’m trying to achieve the following in my form:

Ex. 1:

Checkboxes                 XML

_  Choice 1                   <a>

X Choice 2               =>   <b>Choice 2</b>

_  Choice 3                   </a>

Ex. 2:

_  Choice 1                   <a>

X Choice 2               =>   <b>Choice 2</b>

X Choice 3                      <b>Choice 3</b>

                                    </a>

So, each check box with have a separate node in the resulting XML. Similarly, when the form is loaded, checkboxes will be selected if there are nodes corresponding to them. I’m planning to look at event processing to achieve this but I thought maybe somebody already tackled it and there is an easy way to do it. Any help with be appreciated.

Thanks,

Muzaffer

You just need to set the default value in your model, then the corresponding (e.g. Choice 2 for Ex1, and Choice 2/Choice 3 for Ex 2 will be checked automatically).

Frank

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Dr. Yankui(Frank) Feng
Digital Library Systems Developer
The University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904-434507
Email: yf508 at york.ac.uk
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From: Ozakca, Muzaffer [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 15 October 2008 22:19
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Check box group question

Hi, I’m trying to achieve the following in my form:

Ex. 1:

Checkboxes                 XML

_  Choice 1                   <a>

X Choice 2               =>   <b>Choice 2</b>

_  Choice 3                   </a>

Ex. 2:

_  Choice 1                   <a>

X Choice 2               =>   <b>Choice 2</b>

X Choice 3                      <b>Choice 3</b>

                                    </a>

So, each check box with have a separate node in the resulting XML. Similarly, when the form is loaded, checkboxes will be selected if there are nodes corresponding to them. I’m planning to look at event processing to achieve this but I thought maybe somebody already tackled it and there is an easy way to do it. Any help with be appreciated.

Thanks,

Muzaffer

Personally, I don't think you can do this directly in xforms as the xform interface is the reflection of its model (I might be wrong as I'm not Xforms expert. ) . What you want just makes model mismatching with its apperance. Probably you can add some post-processing magic either in server side after submitting or in client side by using functions/events in xpath.

From: Ozakca, Muzaffer [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 16 October 2008 15:22
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] RE: RE: Check box group question

Hi, thanks for the answer. I am also wondering how to specify that in the form spec so each checkbox will correspond to a new node in the resulting XML. Similar to repeat fields. A simple spec like this:

<xforms:select appearance="full" ref="a/b">

            <xforms:label class="field-label">Choices</xforms:label>
            <xforms:itemset nodeset="instance(‘c’)/choices">
                        <xforms:label ref="."></xforms:label>
                        <xforms:value ref="."></xforms:value>
            </xforms:itemset>
</xforms:select>

Generates XML like this:

_  Choice 1                   <a>

X Choice 2               =>   <b>Choice 2 Choice 3</b>

X Choice 3                    </a>

Instead of this:

_  Choice 1                   <a>

X Choice 2               =>   <b>Choice 2</b>

X Choice 3                      <b>Choice 3</b>

                                    </a>

Thanks,

Muzaffer