RE: [WEB400] Checkbox naming and reference

["Flaker, Jeff" <JFlaker@xxxxxxx>]

You can do this with a FOR loop.  Your control is the .length (how
many).

//loop while i is less than the amount of checkboxes present.
For(i=0, i < FormName.CheckBoxName.length, i++)
        {//you then use Form.CheckBoxName[i].value to see the individual
checkbox's value as you loop through them.}

Jeffrey Flaker
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don Freeman [mailto:DFreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:36 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] Checkbox naming and reference


I have a variable number of checkboxes I am displaying in the /$section
generated by an RPG program.  The number of checkboxes is unknown until
program execution.  My problem is how do I reference each checkbox to
see if it is checked and what the value is of that checkbox:
----------------------------------------------
The HTML section looks like this:
   <tr>
     <td><div align="left"><font color="white">*</font>Contact
Type:</div></td>
     <td><div align="left">
/$ContTypList
         <INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX
                NAME="/%vdBoxNbr%/"
                VALUE="/%vdContTypVal%/"
                /%vdContTypChecked%/>/%vdContTypDsp%/<BR>
/$ContTypListX
                    <input type="hidden" name="ChkBoxTotal"
value="/%vdChkBoxTotal%/">
                    <!-- the above holds the number of checkboxes
actually generated -->
     </td>
   </tr>

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This is one example of what the generated HTML in the section could look
like in one of many circumstances:

   <tr>
     <td><div align="left"><font color="white">*</font>Contact
Type:</div></td>
     <td><div align="left">
         <INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="1" VALUE="*ALL" >All Contact
Types<BR>
         <INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="2" VALUE="COM MGR"
checked>Compliance Manager<BR>
         <INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="3" VALUE="REG MGR" >Regional
Manager<BR>
         <INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME="4" VALUE="GEN MGR" checked>General
Manager<BR>
         <input type="hidden" name="ChkBoxTotal" value="4">
     </td>
   </tr>
-----------------------------------------------
As you can see I now have the number of checkboxes available to me for
any looping that may be needed but I still don't know how I am going to
test each one within the loop. 

If I code (forgetting about the loop for now):

  If (vdBoxNbr = '1') and (vdContTypChecked = 'checked');
     DBfield1 = vdContTypVal;
  EndIf;

How do I reference vdContTypChecked and vdContTypVal so that I can be
sure that they are the ones associated with the first checkbox (vdBoxNbr
= '1'), and so on through checkbox #4? 


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