Author Topic: Using Select to collect data but checkbox for searching (Read 624 times)

petednz · March 08, 2010, 12:50:29 pm

HI - I have hit this several times and may have asked before, if so apologies - but we often end up setting up multichoice fields to be Select as that is what we want for collecting the data - eg which electorate does someone live in - but when we come to use Adv Search we often want to return results for several of those options - but I don't think this is currently possible.

Can anyone shed light on what will be required to make this possible - either as a one-off fix, or as a more fundamental change - the latter presumably requiring something like a checkbox on the Custom Field Edit form alongside "Is this Field Searchable?" so that we can specify 'provide options as checkbox in search forms'?

thanks

Donald Lobo · March 08, 2010, 09:21:16 pm

Might be able to model this similar to a Date search, which can be searched by date range (db field: is_search_range)

assuming that the "search range" of a select / radio is a checkbox element is not a far stretch (IMO). You can potentially modify the code to do so and follow the same steps as a date custom field

lobo

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