Question

I have a form with 3 text fields and 3 checkboxes. I had implemented VB Script validation so if a user submits the form and leaves something empty, the user will get back to the form WHILE having the fields filled in already. That said, this is not working for the chackboxes.

this is the code I am using for the checkboxes I am doing code in the value””

<input type="checkbox" name="ClaimSection_ActivityProof"  id="ClaimSection_ActivityProof"  value="<%=Request.Form("ClaimSection_ActivityProof")%>" style="width:20px" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ClaimSection_InvoicesPayableByPartner" id="ClaimSection_InvoicesPayableByPartner" value="<%=Request.Form("ClaimSection_InvoicesPayableByPartner")%>"  style="width:20px" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ClaimSection_InvoicesPayableByGFI" id="ClaimSection_InvoicesPayable" value="<%=Request.Form("ClaimSection_InvoicesPayable")%>" style="width:20px" />

To cut the sotry short, if a user checks 2 checkboxes, submits the form, and when he is redirected back to the form again, the checkboxes will remain checked. How I can do this please?

Answer 1

name ( or group ) the checkboxes by the same name, ( I assume they all are related ClaimSection matter)
So ,you can name them all as “ClaimSection”. Just make sure you assign each one its own unique values!

Example;

<input type='checkbox' name='ClaimSection' value='ActivityProof'>
<input type='checkbox' name='ClaimSection' value='InvoicesPayableByPartner'>
<input type='checkbox' name='ClaimSection' value='InvoicesPayableByGFI'> 

With this naming, if your user checks more than 2 checkboxes, you will get the corresponding values in a comma separated fashion.
So, if your user checks the last 2 checkboxes, you will get “InvoicesPayableByPartner,InvoicesPayableByGFI” in return.

Now that you know this, it won’t be hard to set up a bunch of if branches to handle the checked vs not checked matter by comparing against what you got in the request(“ClaimSection”)

Something like the following can get you in the right direction..

dim submitted_ClaimSections 
submitted_ClaimSections = request("ClaimSection") 
submitted_ClaimSections = "," & submitted_ClaimSections & ","

//handle the ActivityProof checkbox checked_or_not ="" 
if  instr(submitted_ClaimSections,"," & "ActivityProof" & ",")>0 then       
    checked_or_not = "checked" 
end if 
Response.write "<input type='checkbox' name='ClaimSection' value='ActivityProof' " & checked_or_not & "> ActivityProof" 

//handle the InvoicesPayableByPartner checkbox checked_or_not ="" 
if instr(submitted_ClaimSections,"," & "InvoicesPayableByPartner" & ",")>0 then     
    checked_or_not = "checked" 
end if 
Response.write "<input type='checkbox' name='ClaimSection' value='InvoicesPayableByPartner' " & checked_or_not & "> InvoicesPayableByPartner" 


//handle the InvoicesPayableByGFI checkbox checked_or_not ="" 
if instr(submitted_ClaimSections,"," & "InvoicesPayableByGFI" & ",")>0 then
    checked_or_not = "checked" 
end if 
Response.write "<input type='checkbox' name='ClaimSection' value='InvoicesPayableByGFI' " & checked_or_not & "> InvoicesPayableByGFI"