RE: [WEB400] CGIDEV2 and checkboxes - Solution ; WAS: Checkbox naming and reference

["Don Freeman" <DFreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> 
> > From: Don Freeman
> > 
> > After a lot of frustration and experimentation and with the 
> help of a
> > solid nudge in the correct direction (thanks B.C.) I now have a
> working
> > solution.

> 
> Be very careful with checkboxes.  They do not always act as you think
> they might.  In particular, if a checkbox is not checked, it does not
> return a blank; it returns nothing at all.  Basically, it 
> makes it very
> difficult for you to "uncheck" a checked value.

No kidding. I am trying to write the data update procedure now that the add 
procedure is done, and it looks to be an even bigger pain.    

> Even uglier, if you already have a value in your session with 
> that name,
> the old value is returned.  Thus, if you have two checkboxes on two
> subsequent pages with the same name, and you check the first one and
> then execute the second page, you may find the second one 
> acts as if it
> were checked as well.

Oh man, that is exactly the scenario that I am working with.  One more obstacle 
to tackle.  A major problem has been the lack of reference material for CGI as 
used with RPG. I've got a couple of books by Bradly Stone. They were good 
starting out but they don't get into the detail that I seem to need right now.  
I basically just went out and looked at various pages that used checkboxes and 
did a little reverse engineering.