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Interaction Process Automation Designer Help
Radio Button
Radio buttons allow the user to select one item from a group of related radio buttons. Use radio buttons to let the user select only one item from the group. For example, an employee can work part-time or full-time, but not both. Radio buttons are the opposite of check boxes, which let the user select one or multiple items from a group of related check boxes. When a user selects a radio button, the process then passes the value to a process or work item variable.
To set properties, display the control's shortcut menu and click Edit Properties.
Note: Unlike most controls, radio buttons are normally used not alone but in groups. For example, suppose that a process must categorize a loan as Consumer, Automobile, or Home. You might create a variable called loanType to hold that information. On a form, you would add one radio button for each different type of loan. If the process user clicks the radio button for Consumer Loan, it selects that radio button. If the user then clicks the radio button for Automobile Loan, it de-selects the radio button for Consumer Loan at the same time as it selects the button for Automobile Loan. To do this, IPA Designer must know that the radio buttons go together. Therefore, when you bind a group of radio buttons to the same variable (such as loanType), IPA Designer automatically groups them together.
Radio Button Control Properties
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Color |
The shortcut menu displays nothing in this area. |
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Font |
The shortcut menu has standard buttons to set text style (such as bold), size, and font. Note: Type size is measured in points. One inch has 72 points, so 12-point type is one-sixth of an inch high, 18-point type is one-fourth of an inch high, and so on. |
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Text (format) |
The shortcut menu has standard buttons to set text format. The W button sets word wrap on or off. Other buttons align the text left, right, center, or justified. |
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Values |
Value When Selected: A variable that sets the initial value to display when selected. |
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Options |
Required Field: If selected, this check box requires the user to enter or select a value before proceeding. |
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Binding(s) |
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Selected Value Data |
The variable with which the process links the control. Click the hyperlink to select or change the variable. |
Control Only: The control only displays its state. It does not send its data anywhere else or get data from anywhere else. The user can change the state of the control, but the change doesn't cause anything else to happen.
Data to Control: The control gets its value from the data item with which it is bound by the Selected Value Data property. It displays that data.
Control to Data: The control takes whatever value the user gives it and copies that value into the data item with which it is bound by the Selected Value Data property.