Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Building forms
Last updated 3/28/2012
Set the Dynamic Text Field dialog box options
1 Select the text field to make dynamic from the Text Field pop-up menu.
2 Click the lightning bolt icon beside the Set Value To box, select a data source from the list of data sources, and click OK.
The data source should contain textual information. If no data sources appear in the list, or if the available data sources
don’t meet your needs, click the Plus
(+) button to define a new data source.
More Help topics
“Defining sources of dynamic content” on page 536
Dynamically preselect an HTML check box
You can let the server decide whether to select a check box when the form is displayed in a browser.
Before you begin, you must create the form in a ColdFusion, PHP, or ASP page, and you must define a recordset or
other source of dynamic content for the check boxes. Ideally, the source of content should contain Boolean data, such
as Yes/No or true/false.
1 Select a check box form object on your page.
2 In the Property inspector, click the Dynamic button.
3 Complete the Dynamic CheckBox dialog box, and click OK:
• Click the lightning bolt icon beside the Check If box and select the field from the list of data sources.
The data source must contain Boolean data such as Yes and No, or true and false. If no data sources appear in the
list, or if the available data sources don’t meet your needs, click the Plus
(+) button to define a new data source.
• In the Equal To box, enter the value the field must have for the check box to appear selected.
For example, for the check box to appear selected when a specific field in a record has a value of Yes, enter Yes in the
Equal To box.
Note: This value is also returned to the server if the user clicks the form’s Submit button.
Dynamically preselect an HTML radio button
Dynamically preselect an HTML radio button when a record is displayed in the HTML form in a browser.
Before you begin, you must create the form in a ColdFusion, PHP, or ASP page, and insert at least one group of HTML
radio buttons (Insert
> Form > Radio Group). You must also define a recordset or other source of dynamic content
for the radio buttons. Ideally, the source of content should contain Boolean data, such as Yes/No or true/false.
1 In Design view, select a radio button in the radio group.
2 In the Property inspector, click the Dynamic button.
3 Complete the Dynamic Radio Group dialog box, and click OK.
Set the Dynamic Radio Group dialog box options
1 In the Radio Button Group pop-up menu, select a form and radio button group in the page.
The Radio Button Value box displays the values of all radio buttons in the group.
2 Select a value to dynamically preselect from the list of values. This value is displayed in the Value box.