Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantics of checkboxes and null values

2010-01-11 Thread Oleh Kovalchuke
Search For: o radiobutton R1-type Records [ ] checkbox Yes value [ ] checkbox No value o radiobutton R2-type Records You might consider adding R2D2-type of the records to mix it up a bit. Oleh Kovalchuke On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Alan Wexelblat awexelb...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantics of checkboxes and null values

2010-01-11 Thread Alan Wexelblat
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Oleh Kovalchuke tangospr...@gmail.com wrote: Search For: o  radiobutton R1-type Records     [ ] checkbox Yes value     [ ] checkbox No value o  radiobutton R2-type Records If there were just R1 and R2 records this would be the solution I'd use. It's simple

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantics of checkboxes and null values

2010-01-11 Thread Oleh Kovalchuke
Elementary, Watson. For other types -- extrapolate. Oleh Kovalchuke On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Alan Wexelblat awexelb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Oleh Kovalchuke tangospr...@gmail.com wrote: Search For: o radiobutton R1-type Records [ ] checkbox Yes

[IxDA Discuss] The semantics of checkboxes and null values

2010-01-08 Thread Alan Wexelblat
Yet another of my odd questions, feel free to skip if you don't care... I am attempting to design a query form to let people find things in a mixed set of records. For simplicity's sake let's say there are R1-type records and R2-type records. In the R1-type records there's a data value that's

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The semantics of checkboxes and null values

2010-01-08 Thread Bryan Minihan
Excel seems to provide an elegant solution to this by representing the not set value in the possible options. Something like this might work: Query by Checky Field: [*] Yes [*] No [*] Not Set You might assume No also includes Not Set, if the fields are truly equivalent in meaning, and your