I am currently writing a User Guide using Word 2007 where each section has some validation checkboxes to help the consumer implement the solution and track his progress.
I have been able to create Word Checkboxes that can be clicked on using Developper>Legacy Tools>Checkboxes and then Protecting the Document to only allow "Filling in forms".
The next problem is that we want to provide a summary of all the checkboxes in the document in one aggregate list and that it be dynamic (ie: when a checkbox is checked, it also checks it in the summary list).
Is this possible to accomplish ?
TL;DR:
How do I create a summary list of all checkboxes?
How do I control one document from another with ActiveX Controls?
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On Azure DevOps - I have created a custom work item with custom fields on the page or form of the work item layout. Now as per the process I need the system to freeze all the field updates on certain state Eg: Let's say all the actions on the work item is done then the work item state could be tagged as 'Completed' OR ' Closed' - Now here I need to know if there's any technique to freeze all the fields on the page or form at once. (One way to do it is to set the rules for all the fields BUT if there are over 50 fields on multiple pages of the work item then it may require to set 50 rules which seems to be not the right approach. Kindly suggest!
As far as I know, this should only be achieved by setting a work item rule. You don't need to set a rule for each field separately, just add multiple actions in a rule to make multiple fields read-only.
I'm just starting to get into Access due to my job and am tasked with creating a form that displays Data for the individual users on load. Basically what it needs to do is to get data from 3 tables, join them together, and then display the found rows that match that person's accounts they are responsible for managing.
I have this working via a single table Query using a listbox and a datasheet view, however, being a web developer by trade, I would like functionality that displays items similar to what a Unordered List(UL) would display and with functionality that allows the user to click on the company name(which acts as a hyperlink) to then update the information in a new form that I have built, by loading that data into the form, and allowing them to update the fields that I have designated as changeable.
Is this possible in Access via a form or would this be too difficult to implement? I'm decent with VBA, still learning what a lot of the things do, but as far as the logic and things like that to make something happen, I can do that no problem. These rows all have a unique ID so I would be able to either keep them in a collection to populate the form data or I can simply requery the data using the ID number for loading the form data.
A listbox performs like a combobox in datasheet view. Did you mean you have a combobox?
Actually very simple to accomplish, and various methods available. I assume you have a form bound to your Query with a combobox that lists companies. Controls have events. Use the Click event of the Company control. I use only VBA (not macros but macro could do this). Select [Event Procedure] in the event property. Click the ellipses (...) to open VBA Code Editor, type code into the procedure:
DoCmd.OpenForm "CompanyInfo", , , "ID=" & Me.tbxCompany
Keep in mind, controls used for the purpose of entering/selecting filter criteria should be UNBOUND, otherwise you would change data in record. However, using the Click event of a BOUND combobox (as long as you click on the box, not the dropdown) or textbox will not change existing data, not so for a listbox.
I have an embedded form collection in Symfony. Which is working nice. I am working with a manytomany assocation mapping.
Except i want to create (with javascript?) the form so that only unique values are available. In my example i have an Organisation which can exist of many users. When i add user "L" in this case and i want to add a second user i want to prevent that user "L" is available in the other dropdown.
The way i embedded the collection of forms is exactly like the documentation of Symfony has learned me. (http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/form/form_collections.html)
Down below is an example of how it works now (in this example I want to prevent that in the dropdown the user "L" is available as an option.
Thank you very much!
Unfortunately, there's no way you can make the HTML form behave this way. HTML forms just do not have any composite (or dependent) <select> widgets. So, the right way to go here would be:
validating the form server-side, so that duplicate values in two select boxes are not allowed;
adding some JavaScript code to the view that renders form. Perhaps this code should listen to <select>s' onChange events, and once an event is received, the option selected in the first box should either receive a disabled attribute or get deleted.
my company's software product has a feature that allows users to generate forms from Word templates. The program auto fills some fields from the SQL database and the user can fill in other data that they desire. So we have a .dotx template that holds the design of the form, and then the user gets the .docx file to fill out when they call it from our program.
The problem we're having is that some of our users have been finding that the forms take an exceptionally long time to open up and then, once open, are so slow to respond (scroll around, etc) that they're unusable. So in my investigations so far, I've found out that the problem systems are one with lower powered CPUs (unfortunately it happens for systems above our system requirements) and the Word forms that cause the problems are ones with large amount of ActiveX style checkboxes on them. I verified that reducing the ActiveX checkboxes fixes the form loading problems.
So I have the following questions about solutions (we're using Word 2007):
1) Is there any way to configure Word, or some other settings, so that there won't be such a strain opening a Word form with lots of ActiveX checkboxes? Any way of speeding up Word's opening?
2) Using Legacy style checkboxes instead of the ActiveX ones makes the forms load fine, but it looks like the user has to double-click the checkbox and change Default Value->Checked. Is there a way to configure it so that they can simply click on the checkbox to tick it? "Legacy Forms" checkbox as a name kind of worries me (Legacy…), does that mean a future version of word at some point wouldn't load the checkboxes because they're "legacy"?
3) Yes, it became clear to me after a little bit of research into solutions that Word is not the tool for the job for forms like I'm describing. InfoPath seems to be exactly what we should have been using all along but unfortunately I wasn't involved in the decision making or development of these forms, just tasked with coming up with a solution.
I'd appreciate answers to any of these, or if anyone has any other ideas for solutions to this problem.
Thanks
I'm about 3 years too late, but if you want a legacy checkbox to act like a checkbox, you have to restrict editing on the document or section. (You can lock just a section, if you want.) Locking--on Word 2010 it's called "Restrict editing"--is an option under either the Developer tab or the Review tab.
If you restrict editing in this way, the user cannot edit the text but can fill in the form field, so if the form field is a checkbox, the user can click the checkbox on or off; if the form field is a text box, the user can fill the text box.
If you choose to lock off just a section, you'll probably want to use continuous section breaks (Page Layout > Breaks > Continuous) and specify which section. (In the space where you choose form editing as your kind of restriction, there's a small link that lets you specify which section or sections are locked.)
I'm developing a system in which I need to select, from a long list os customers, some to which an specific (batch) action will be executed. For example, I want to select "John", "Peter" and "Steve" and click the "delete" button. No more than 5 customers will be selected.
The problem is that, since there're more than 500 customers, listing all isn't a good option. So far I did an AJAX search that shows just the customers that meet the criteria, but which multiselect way you recommend?
My best idea so far is a below this list in which I could either drag-and-drop the users I want to select or double click them
Any better ideas/examples?
Thanks
I don't know whether you're using jQuery, nor whether your site's design vocabulary is suited to it -- but this jQuery autosuggest plugin is excellent.
+1 for ksr's autosuggest find. I would use this in conjunction with a list box. The user types in the autosuggest input field and when they select an item it adds it to a list box. They can then add additional names via the same method, and submit the list when they've added all the names.
I would go for the pattern used by eBay. They probably did some usability research. You can find more info here: http://quince.infragistics.com/Patterns/Multiple%20Selection%20from%20a%20Large%20List.aspx