Selecting all checkboxes and passing it to another page on click of a button

Question

HI,

I have multiple checkboxes in my report. I am using two buttons Select All and Deselect All for selecting all checkboxes and deselecting all checkboxes. But am not able to pass the checked values to another report. Only if I manually select the checkboxes then only those values are getting passed in the report.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Answer 1

I assume your select all and deselect all buttons are using javascript to set or unset all the other checkboxes in the form.

unset checkboxes are not passed on. only the set one. If you need an explicit 0 or 1 to get passed over, you will have to do something like adding extra hidden fields are are sync'ed to the state of the checkboxes, but this will be riddled with problems (eg, no javascript = FAIL).

Answer 2

You can have a bunch of hidden fields to accompany the checkboxes, and set their values when the checkboxes are unchecked.

Alternately, when you need two or more states for a field, use a radio button.