How do I validate a checkbox in FormBuilder? I'm looking for something like checkbox.isAny. I'm working on very complex branching on a survey form. If any are boxes are checked, I will show another question in a survey, and so on.
Right now, my formula is looking for checkbox1 or checkbox2 or checkbox3. That works when any 1 checkbox is checked. But when checkbox1 AND checkbox2 is checked the next question does not appear. There must be a way to check for any boxes.
I'm new, so if you can point me to a wiki or online learning source for xforms validation and xpath, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thank you
If you want to show a question (say named question) if any of the checkboxes for a field (say named checkboxes) is checked, maybe because if any of the checkboxes is set users need to provide more information, then set the Visibility for question to:
$checkboxes != ''
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I'm new to Rails.
I have a situation where we have a fairly important form that we can't default answers for users as it revolves around government tax authorisation related things so our boolean answers essentially have three states:
nil -> user hasn't provided an answer
true -> User has said true
false -> User has said false
The issue I'm having in our Rails backend with this is by default the form.check_box :some_proper is defaulting the input to false when if the value is nil it needs to remain nil.
So what's happening is a whole series of nil values are changing to false when our form is submitted.
I have provided some code examples, but I can't find anyway of doing what's needed and we may just need to swap from checkboxes to select fields or something.
%dt= form.label :knowledge_intensive
%dd= form.check_box(:knowledge_intensive, {}, "1", "0")
I have attached a GIF to illustrate the issue clearer:
Demo of issue in GIF Form
The form builder adds a hidden field with the same name as your knowledge_intensive field. If you inspect the generated HTML it will appear immediately before the input for the checkbox.
The reason for this is to allow an unchecked box to pass through as false. I'm not sure how you can get around this, as this mechanism is required to pass the state as a param (HTML spec implies unchecked checkboxes aren't passed as form params). There's no easy way to have separate nil/true/false values - you are probably better off using radio buttons for that.
But that's the reason. The auxiliary hidden field is has a value of '0' and that will be interpreted as 'false' by Rails, unless the user checks the check box.
Does that make sense?
I’m using Oberon forms version 2019.2 CE.
In my form I have Dynamic Dropdown (with search) with country select (required field) and Text field with display code of selected country:
When I select country, in text field appears selected country code:
Now I can click ‘x’ sign to remove value form drop down:
Value in field 'code' has not been deleted. When I click Validate button no error is detected. It seems that when I use 'x' sign to remove value from dropdown, I remove only label, not value.
My question is whether it is possible to remove both label and value, when I click 'x' sign?
I am unable to reproduce this with Orbeon Forms CE 2019.2. This is what I am seeing when running this form. If this doesn't help, I'd recommend you update your question to include a link to a minimal form that you are using to reproduce this, with steps to reproduce (and then post a comment, for notification).
It looks like the problem occurs when I use ‘Service performs search’ option set to ‘Yes’. Below you can see how it looks like in my form:
Source code of the form: here
What I try to do is very simple.
I have some fields in a form that are optional to fill. To make the form look cleaner, I'd like to show simple links as Add field and display the optional fields below via js unobstructedly.
If the field is present, it will be saved into the database. The field would also have a delete link. When this delete link is clicked, the field will be removed and also its value from the database when saved.
Seems pretty simple, yet I haven't found a simple approach to this. The whole solution involves many aspects such as passing hidden data to the controller to see if the record was hidden in order to delete its data from the database.
I would prefer a gem already optimized for this purpose but I couldn't found any. What I found is intended for associated records but this is not the case. These are not associations, just optional attributes from the same model.
nested_form_fields gem its also not suitable since it needs a checkbox or radio button to be triggered and not Add field/Remove field links which I believe look cleaner.
Is there such thing as a gem to accomplish this simple thing?
Instead of trying to send hidden data etc. Why don't you just load all the form fields but display:none. When a user clicks the 'show' button you display the field. If the click the hide button, just set the field to null and hide it.
When your form reaches the controller it will save the null value to the db for the hidden fields (same as if you deleted the value).
I am designing a search page in Rails using Ransack and I need some help with check boxes.
I have several check boxes. Here is one of them.
<%= f.check_box :if_bt_eq %>BT
I know that when a check box is ticked it returns 1 and 0 when not ticked.
Is there any way in which I can change the non-ticked return value to nil ?
If not, can you suggest some sort of alternative for this?
Thanks!
Update:
Here's the hashes that are passed when the search form submit button is clicked:
with the check box ticked:
...q%5Bif_bt_eq%5D=1&...
with the check box not ticked:
...q%5Bif_bt_eq%5D=0&...
I want the check box not ticked to be
...q%5Bif_bt_eq%5D=&...
I'm using ExpressionEngine and SafeCracker along with Ajax (plugin: jquery.form.js - http://jquery.malsup.com/form/).
Best I can tell, SafeCracker will only allow for updating a single entry at a time. However, the UI / UX necessitates that a list be displayed. I've proof of concept'ed an entry by entry on-demand form. That is, click a particular edit link next to each entry and a snippet of jquery creates a form along with displaying a submit button. Click submit and that single entry updates. The inputs don't exist until the Update link is clicked
What I would prefer to do, if possible, is to create the non-form and form versions of each entry as the page is renbered and use some sort of toggle to display one or the other. Again, doable. Then, when I click the Edit link I'd add the necessary attributes to the input so that entry's form elements will be read but the other (display: none) elements for the other entries will be ignored. I'm thinking (out loud) that if I add the attr("name", some-value) that would work. That is, an input with no name will be ignored.
Yes, I can test this and I will. However, even if it works I'm not sure if it's a best practice and/or there's a more ideal way of accomplishing my ends. I'm here looking for validation and/or additional expertise and input.
Thanks in advance.
Just set disabled property to inputs and they will excluded from Form submission, whatever input fields are hidden or visible. Different jQuery methods, like submit() and serialize() follow specification of HTML 4 and exclude all disabled controls of a forms. So one way is to set
$('your_input').prop('disabled', true);
or ,
$('your_input').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
Check following link:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#successful-controls
Also, you may use a general button instead of a submit, as result you can handle click event on it and within that event you can make exclusion, validation, manipulation on values and what ever you like.
You can put a disabled attribute on them server side or set the property via jQuery:
$(".hidden input").prop("disabled", true);