Check Box Help

If you've given your check boxes the same name and each has the same export value, you will get the behavior you're seeing. To prevent it, give each check box a different export value.

To prevent the next question(s) from being activated, you will have to use some JavaScript the controls the visibility and/or read-only status of the subsequent fields. The JavaScript would be triggered when check box is checked/unchecked. It's difficult to suggest specific code without knowing more about your form. You also have to decide what should happen if a user goes back and unchecks a check box so that none in the group is selected.

BTW, did you create the form in Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer?

George

Form fields are identified by thier names. In Acrobat (not LiveCycle) if two fields have the same name they are the same field. make sure that you give each of your check boxes different names. Do not use spaces or special characters in the names.

It is possible to force a kind of validation on a group of check boxes. To do this you first have to name the checkboxes as a group using the dot notation. For example, these names would put 3 different checkboxes into the same group.

Q1.Check1, Q1.Check2, and Q1.Check3

The code for doing the check is relativly simple:

The problem is where do you put the code. The best place would be in a script that is run just before the document is submitted. You could check all the fields here and then block submission if anything is wrong. There are lots of other possibilities, but they all tend to be a bit awkward. You'll have to decide how you want the form to work, and that will determine which event scrpit to use.

Thom Parker
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I'm trying to set up my check boxes to only allow the user to select one of 2 check boxes. There is Yes and No and users are able to select both of these options. I want to make the Form so that when you select Yes, you can't select No or vice versa.

Thanks

RLK,

You need to give both check boxes the same name but different export values.

George