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Checkboxes not working

Thread began 10/05/2013 12:50 pm by mrs | Last modified 10/07/2013 8:36 am by Jason Byrnes | 1199 views | 4 replies |

mrs

Checkboxes not working

I have run the Update Single Page wizard so many times, but just can't get the checkboxes to work. No matter what I do even if I don't touch them, they always enter a value of 1 into the DB. If I use the Data Assist wizard to create a new range of pages, then checkboxes work fine, but this isn't enabling me to work with the session that security assist creates to identify what user account I am affecting!

I have opened time and again the update record behaviour to bind each checkbox to its relevant DB field, I have set the dynamic value to the relevant DB field, I have set the type to Checkbox 0,1... I am at a loss.

This example code is from the Data Assist wizard which created a new update page which is working:

<input type="checkbox" name="UserVENUE" id="UserVENUE" value="1" <?php if (!(strcmp((isset($_GET["invalid"])?ValidatedField("userupdate","UserVENUE"):"".$row_SecurityAssisttblusers["UserVENUE"].""),"1"))) {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} ?>>

And this is from the Update Single Page wizard where I already have a form already in place:

<input name="UserVENUE" type="checkbox" id="UserVENUE" value="1" <?php if (!(strcmp($row_SecurityAssisttblusers['UserVENUE'],1))) {echo "checked=\"checked\"";} ?>>

There's a big difference in the code produced, but why? When I look at the dynamic values window from the property panel it has different code, so where can I learn what I need to enter there?

Even when I take the code of the Data Assist Update page and add and amend it to my page it still doesn't work! The only way it seems that I can get a checkbox to work is if I use the Data Assist created pages and pass the record ID to be updated through the URL rather than with the session ID!

Could you take a look at the attached file and let me know why the Update Single record wizard hasn't done what I expect and tell me where you think I have gone wrong?

Thanks

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mrs

OK, so I have just figured out how to do it with a sessionID on the Data Assist created page, and I have found out that there is a hidden field with the data assist created page which holds $_GET['ID'] for the passed URL. Changing that and the recordset to use $_SESSION['SecurityAssist_UserID'] has enabled me to forgo passing a url variable and thus overcome security issues.

What I want to know is why the page I attached in the first post which was created by Security Assist wizard doesn't have a hidden field with the ID, but the Data Assist Update page does? Why does the security assist update page that I attached work with all content on the correct record apart from the checkboxes?

I'm obviously missing something fundamental but probably very simple!

Thanks

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

In the page you attached the check box fields are UserEmailMrkt and UserEmail3rdPrty


in the update record behavior, you bound those fields to the recordset columns:
$row_SecurityAssisttblusers['UserEmailMrkt']
$row_SecurityAssisttblusers['UserEmail3rdPrty']

and not to the post variables from the form.



  What I want to know is why the page I attached in the first post which was created by Security Assist wizard doesn't have a hidden field with the ID, but the Data Assist Update page does?  


Security assist uses the Users ID variable which is stored in a session.

The update created by security assist is intended to happen on the user level using the users ID.

Data Assist Creates pages that can be used to update multiple records that pass an ID to determine which one. The update scenario created by security assist is completely different from the one created by data Assist.

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mrs

Aha, the difference between the two is obviously required then!

As for not binding to the form variables... I couldn't see that for love nor money. Thank you!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you're welcome.

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