Getting started with flash forms - cfformgroup with checkboxes PLEASE HELP!!

Report · Jul 30, 2009

Hello all,

I've been developing basic ColdFusion sites for quite a while but just recently took the plunge into RIA's. I have two problems:

1) How can I get a checkbox inside the <cfformgroup> tag to display a string value once the submit button is clicked (on the results page)?

2) How can I stop the unchecked checkboxes to stop returning a "false" value?

Here's my code:

<cfformgroup type="page" label="Page 1"><br />
            <cfformitem type="HTML">SUPERVISION</cfformitem>
                        <cfinput type="checkbox" required="no" name="satisfactory" Label="Satisfactory" value="Satisfactory">
                        <cfinput type="checkbox" required="no"name="person" Label="Person in Charge present, certified, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties" value="Person in Charge">
                        <cftextarea required="no" name="commentsPerson" cols="47" rows="5"></cftextarea>
                        <cfinput type="checkbox" required="no" name="training" Label="Employee training, documentation of training" value="Employee Training">
                        <cftextarea required="no" name="commentsTraining" cols="47" rows="5"></cftextarea>
                        <cfinput type="checkbox" required="no" name="awareness" Label="Management Awareness, Policy Present" value="Management Awareness">
                        <cftextarea required="no" name="commentsAwareness" cols="47" rows="5"></cftextarea>
                        <cfinput type="checkbox" required="no" name="reporting" Label="Proper Use of Reporting, Restriction and Exclusion" value="Proper use of Reporting">
                        <cftextarea required="no" name="commentsReporting" cols="47" rows="5"></cftextarea>
         </cfformgroup>

</cfformgroup>

</cfform>

I clicked the second checkbox and entered "test" in the textarea field and I get this when I click submit:

SUPERVISION
true
test
false

false

false

I would like it instead to show:

SUPERVISION

Person in Charge (instead of true)

test (or whatever comments are entered into the field)

I don't claim to be a CF guru but I have tried everything that would normally work in a regular cfform. If checkboxes aren't feasible (I just prefer them because layout wise they're neater) any code samples of what will work would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Report · Aug 09, 2009

Checkboxes can have a string as value only in HTML forms. A checkbox in a flashform can only have the value true or false.

One way out is to bind a hidden field to the checkbox, and to pass the "Person in Charge" string as the value of the hidden field. To do so, follow these steps:

1) add the attribute name="myForm" to the cfform tag;

2) include this field in the form <cfinput type="hidden" name="person_in_charge" bind="{myForm.person?'Person in charge':'No one in charge'}">