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Deselecting Checkboxes

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2008-03-30 19:31:06
ermariotti
Registered: Mar 30 2008
Posts: 3
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I've searched the forum, but I just have not been able to find out how to adequately deselect checkboxes. I have a row of checkboxes that I'd like to have defaulted as "Button is selected by default". They would all have a different name as none are related to each other. I'd like the user to be able to deselect, or erase, the check mark.

The way I have it now, they are all checked, and clicking on any box does nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Eric

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Macintosh
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2008-03-31 07:23:16
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
Both Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer have a method or funciton to clear slected form fields.

Your statement "The way I have it now, they are all checked, and clicking on any box does nothing." sounds like you are using radio buttons and not check boxes. Check boxes will clear if one mouse clicks on the check box, but radio buttons will not clear.

For AcroForms you can can use the document method:

"this.resetForm(["field1", "field2". ..."fieldn"]);

where "field#" are the individual field name.

George Kaiser

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2008-03-31 19:25:24
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ermariotti
Registered: Mar 30 2008
Posts: 3
Thank you very much. I thought I did use check boxes, but my problem was I had used 'radio' buttons and selected 'check' as the appearance. They looked like check boxes, but were really radio buttons. Confusion solved.

Eric
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