Prompt User to click checkbox (radio button)

[Former Community Member]

I am trying to ensure that a mandatory check box (which is actually a radio button) is checked before entering data in a form. I have made the checkbox mandatory ( red box around it) but I want a message to display if a person tries to enter data in the first text box in the form if the above checkbox is not clicked. (LS Des 8.21) I am assuming that there should be javascript on the text box upon entry into it?? Just not that up on java. Any help is appreciated

[Jono_Moore · Accepted solution]

Here's a bit of JavaScript that should do what you need.

(on the Enter event of the text field)

if (RadioButtonList.rawValue == "") {

     xfa.host.messageBox("You need to click the button!");

     this.rawValue == null;

}

Another way to do it would be to hide the other fields on the form until the button is clicked. If you wrapped all the fields that rely on this button in a subform it would quite easy:

(on the Change event of the radio button group)

if (this.rawValue == "1") {

     hiddenSubForm.presence = "visible";

}

else {

     hiddenSubForm.presence = "hidden";

}

[Former Community Member]

Thank you very much, I will give this a try. The second part of wrapping in a subform is just what the Dr. ordered!