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Anonymous
April 26, 2016
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Checkboxes Responses in Alert Email

  • April 26, 2016
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I have a form with a checkboxes section where a person can select up to 8 selections of 28 possible selections, and I want to 1. Limit the amount of selections the person can make, and 2. have those selections show up in an alert email that comes to me when the form is submitted.

I've tested the form and the only value that comes in through the token for the multiple selections is a "1."

Any ideas on how I can make both of these options work?

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    Anonymous
    April 26, 2016

    Alec:

    The way Marketo processes data, a “1” is the equivalent to a Yes checkmark.

    Mike Turner

    Senior Manager, Lead-to-Revenue Marketing

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    Grégoire_Miche2
    Grégoire_Miche2
    Level 10
    April 26, 2016

    Hi Alec,

    Limiting the number of checked boxes will require some JS.

    If you are using 1 field with "checkboxes" field type, you can edit the stored values.

    If you are using multiple fields, each with a "checkbox" (single) field type, you cannot. But, if theses fields are not boolean ones, but string ones, you could change them to "checkboxes" field type (keeping multiple fields) and you would be able to choose the stored value. Remember the stored value is the one that renders in your alert email.

    -Greg

    Josh_Hill13
    Josh_Hill13
    Level 10
    April 26, 2016

    In these cases, you can either run some JS to populate a "Yes" value to a String field, or use a data flow to do the same thing. Usually, if I plan in advance, I make these fields read as Yes/No/Blank.

    If you want to display 1=Yes=TRUE on a page, this is much easier because JS will let you recode the text.

    Germaine_Willia
    Germaine_Willia
    Level 2
    March 5, 2018

    Hi Josh,

    We're running into the same problem as above: we want to show which selections were chosen and it shows up as a "1". I showed my web director this email chain and that you said the edit could be made in JS, but he was wondering where/how?

    Can you elaborate please?

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