Drop down lists with auto-complete enabled make it easy to pick a value without your hands leaving the keyboard. When using this technique on a list, the calculation is not applied until you click out of the field and the value that is left in the field is the bottom most one in the list not necessarily the last one selected. Doesn’t matter if they are shift-click selected or command-click selected.

How can you capture the values as they are selected?

Thanks! Lindee

solved my prob. Thanks!
Troy

1: If you mean you want the link to change color as you click on it, I don’t think its possible in any straight forward way. If you mean its color should be different after you have clicked it, then you can do this with Conditional Formatting. You just need some way to keep track of whether or not the link has been clicked. This could be done with a global variable, a value stored in a field somewhere, etc…

For example, when they click the button, you could run a script that sets a variable called $$link_clicked to true, and then go to the layout. Then apply conditional formatting to the button with a condition formula of:

$$link_clicked

And apply an alternate text color. Should work just fine.

2: For your radio buttons, you just need to set the value in the field to the current user’s name, which you can get from the Get(AccountName) function. You can put this in an auto-enter calculation, or set the field with a script.

Hope this helps

Geoff

I created a link between two layouts and I would like the link to change colors when it is selected. How do I achieve this affect in FP9?

I also have three radiobuttons which contain names. I would like to know if its possible to automatically select the correct radio button if the user name that logins matches one of the names in the radio button selection?

If you want the button to clear all of the checkboxes, that’s a breeze. Just clear the field. For instance, if your checkbox field is called Colors then you can use this simple step:

Set Field [ Colors; "" ]

If the field has several checkboxes, and you want to clear just two specific values, then it gets a little more complex. As mentioned in the article, FileMaker stores the data in the field with each checkbox value on one line. So you need to find a way to remove specific lines of text from the field. You can do this with the Substitute function. For instance, if you want to uncheck Red and Blue from your Colors field, you could essentially do this:

Set Field [ Colors; Substitute(Colors, "Red", "") ]
Set Field [ Colors; Substitute(Colors, "Blue", "") ]

That two-line script says to replace the word “Red” in the field with nothing, and then do the same with “Blue”.

First, you can streamline this a little if you want by doing both substitutions in one step, like this:

Set Field [ Colors; Substitute(Colors; ["Red", ""]; ["Blue", ""]) ]

The Substitute function lest you pass in multiple pairs like this, and it will replace them all.

But you also have another problem. Suppose your Colors field has these values:

Red
Green
Blue
Blueish

When your script removes the word “Blue” from this value, it will find it in two places (”Blue” and the first part of “Blueish”). If this is a problem for your data set, you’ll have to protect against it. You only want to replace “Blue” when it is on a line all by itself. In other words, when there is an ¶ right before it and another ¶ right after it. So you can almost get away with this:

Set Field [ Colors; Substitute(Colors, "¶Blue¶", "¶") ]

This version says to replace “Blue” when it is preceded and followed by new lines with a single return, effectively wiping it out. But this version is still not quite right. What if “Blue” is the first item in the list? Then it won’t have an ¶ before it. Likewise, if it is the last item, it won’t have one after it. So you have to get creative: force your data into the form you want, do the substitution, and then clean it up when your done. This script does just that:

Set Field [ Colors, ¶ & Colors & ¶ ]
Set Field [ Colors, Substitute(Colors; "¶Blue¶" "¶") ]
Set Field [ Colors, Substitute(Colors; "¶Red¶", "¶") ]
Set Field [ Colors, Middle(Colors, 2, Length(Colors) - 1) ]

As before, this script could be written in fewer steps if you want (in fact, it can be written in one step) but I wanted the steps to be explicit here.

Hope this helps.

Geoff