Radio buttons and checkboxes help

[Philffer]

Does this still work? I don't get it to work

PFR: Provide Check Boxs and Radio Button UI elements

For some UI layouts, having Check boxes or Radio button elements can help. Right now, Radio button functionality can be provided by the picklist, but what is lacking is multi-select inside a pick list - which could return a list of rows or values selected in the picklist. However, i still feel having separate Radio button selection and Check Box selection can improve UI layout.

[Alyssa]

Hi @Philffer, welcome to the community!

Here are a couple of articles that show how to use radio buttons and checkboxes:

Add Radio Buttons

Radio buttons are a great way to provide options for your app users to select from. They typically appear in groups of at least two and have labels that indicate what each option represents. We’ve made it easy in Honeycode to build these into your apps, so users can make a selection with a simple click or tap. [Radio Button Image] We’ve broken this article into sections: Quick steps with shared data: This section will cover the basics to get radio buttons up and running using shared data. …

Add Toggles: Checkboxes and Switches

Honeycode has two types of toggles you can easily add to your apps to allow users to make a selection with a click or a tap: Checkboxes Switches Toggle selections are typically binary in nature, meaning the app user can select between two choices; furthermore, you can add dynamic labels to the toggles to help clarify what the selection means (e.g., On or Off, Yes or No, Complete or Incomplete, etc.). [Switches and Checkbox Image] Use case with steps As seen in the image above, we will bui…

Hope those help, and let us know if you have any further questions.

[Philffer]

Hey Alyssa,
thanks for the fast reply. The radio buttons work but the multi select does not work.

[Alyssa]

Hi @Philffer

Checkboxes allow you to make multiple selections of different values or items. Could you elaborate on what exactly is not working for your case? We're happy to help you out.

[Philffer]

Sure. So I have an table "Application" and an table "Comment". I want to choose multiple rows from the "Comment" table and save them in a new table "Application_Comments", which represents a many-to-many relation between the applications and comments. I can only choose one option from the selection of comments.

Hope this clarifies my use case

[Alyssa]

Hi @Philffer

Got it, sounds like you may have had a field that was a rowlink (this feature only selects one row value for that field).

For an idea that uses checkboxes to select specified rows, you can set up an automation with on a button that writes specified rows if particular boxes are checked. This is how it would look:

Here's a table of comments you may want to add to application:

In Builder, I added a checkbox to represent each comment. On the button, there's an automation step for each check box, and in the Run Options of the step, I added a formula to checks if the box is selected (or TRUE). If it is true, it will write the comment to a table that associates the comment to an application:

This is the table that it writes to:

And in the table that stores the applications, you can create a filter for all of the comments associated to each application. Here's an example formula:

=FILTER(ApplicationComments,"ApplicationComments[Application]=Applications[Application ID]")

Hope that idea helps!