topic Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs in ArcPad Questions

Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

AmenAbdou — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:52:54 GMT

Hey everyone, I am creating an ArcPad mobile application to collect information on catch basins. The city engineer informed me that he also wants to collect the pipe directions connected to the catch basins.

My idea is, instead of having one tab for each of the cardinal and intermediary directions, to have eight checkboxes listing the directions (N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, SW) and the user picks which directions the pipes are traveling then the application only loads those tabs to enter the pipe information.

Has anyone created or come across a script to do this or does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

EricHajek1 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:19:47 GMT

Outside of using an extension, there currently isn't any way to selectively load tabs like you're saying. You could however disable the controls on those tabs, but then you're still stuck with having to go through all 8 tabs. You might try something weird like altering the .Caption for each page after the checkboxes are clicked so that some page tabs appear small and blank, while the ones you want the users to fill out (ie-thier checkbox was checked) have names such as "SW Page", etc that would indicate that they are "active" pages.

The other thing you could do is disable page tabs altogether, and have some buttons that switch to/from pages become enabled as they check the checkboxes. This is probably the only way to have the functionality you describe, and wouldn't be all that difficult since the appropriate methods are available. (page object -> Activate)

Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

RolfBroch — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:46:41 GMT

If all the tabs will contain the same controls I would put all the controls on one page and have a script that sets the controls that belongs to a certain direction visible and the other to not visible. The same control will change the page caption to indicate the cardinal direction.

Ex. at the top of your form you have 8 radiobuttons that are always visible indicating the directions and the on_click script for each of these radiobuttons will run another script that will make the correct controls visible.

Rolf

Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

AmenAbdou — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:59:18 GMT

If all the tabs will contain the same controls I would put all the controls on one page and have a script that sets the controls that belongs to a certain direction visible and the other to not visible. The same control will change the page caption to indicate the cardinal direction.

Ex. at the top of your form you have 8 radiobuttons that are always visible indicating the directions and the on_click script for each of these radiobuttons will run another script that will make the correct controls visible.

Rolf

Thats a great idea Rolf, I have been trying to impliment that, but I cannot seem to get the onclick funtion right. If I am understanding your idea correctly, the onclick function should change where the input fields are pointing to in the database. Aside from not writing the script correctly, my concern with this is, how do I tell it to write the information to the database. I was thinking if I only used the onclick to remap the fields that the data would be erased without updating the database once they went to input the information on a different pipe. Would that be done on the onkillfocus function?

I attached a SS of what that page of the form looks like at the moment.

Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

RolfBroch — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:23:15 GMT

Hi, if your editform looks something like this (I only did 4 of your cardinal directions)

   <EDITFORM name="CatchBasin" caption="CatchBasin" width="130" height="130" attributespagevisible="false" picturepagevisible="true" symbologypagevisible="true" geographypagevisible="true" required="false">
    <PAGE name="page1" caption="Page 1">
     <RADIOBUTTON name="rbtN" y="2" width="25" height="12" onclick="Call rbt_OnClick" caption="N" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="false" value="" field="" alignment="left"/>
     <RADIOBUTTON name="rbtE" x="30" y="2" width="25" height="12" onclick="Call rbt_OnClick" caption="E" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="false" value="" field="" alignment="left"/>
     <RADIOBUTTON name="rbtS" x="60" y="2" width="25" height="12" onclick="Call rbt_OnClick" caption="S" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="false" value="" field="" alignment="left"/>
     <RADIOBUTTON name="rbtW" x="90" y="2" width="25" height="12" onclick="Call rbt_OnClick" caption="W" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="false" value="" field="" alignment="left"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_SizeN" x="2" y="43" width="60" height="12" caption="N_Size" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_SizeN" x="64" y="42" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="N_SIZE"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_SizeE" x="2" y="43" width="60" height="12" caption="E_Size" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_SizeE" x="64" y="42" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="E_SIZE"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_SizeS" x="2" y="43" width="60" height="12" caption="S_Size" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_SizeS" x="64" y="42" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="S_SIZE"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_SizeW" x="2" y="43" width="60" height="12" caption="W_Size" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_SizeW" x="64" y="42" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="W_SIZE"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_InvertN" x="2" y="63" width="60" height="12" caption="N_Invert" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_InvertN" x="64" y="62" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="N_INVERT"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_InvertE" x="2" y="63" width="60" height="12" caption="E_Invert" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_InvertE" x="64" y="62" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="E_INVERT"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_InvertS" x="2" y="63" width="60" height="12" caption="S_Invert" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_InvertS" x="64" y="62" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="S_INVERT"/>
     <LABEL name="lbl_InvertW" x="2" y="63" width="60" height="12" caption="W_Invert" tooltip="" border="false"/>
     <EDIT name="txt_InvertW" x="64" y="62" width="60" height="12" defaultvalue="" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="true" field="W_INVERT"/>
    </PAGE>
   </EDITFORM>

and the script you run when clicking a button looks like this

Sub rbt_OnClick()
Dim rbt
Set rbt = ThisEvent.Object
Dim pControl
For each pControl in rbt.Parent.Controls
If pControl.Type = "LABEL" Then
   If Right(pControl.Name, 1) = Right(rbt.Name, 1) Then
    pControl.Visible = True
   Else
    pControl.Visible = False
   End If
ElseIF pControl.Type = "EDIT" Then
   If Right(pControl.Name, 1) = Right(rbt.Name, 1) Then
    pControl.Visible = True
   Else
    pControl.Visible = False
   End If
End If
Next
Set pControl = Nothing
End Sub

Then all you need to do is to click the correct radiobutton, fill in the values (and it will be saved to the correct attribute since the control is already tied to the correct field), click the next radiobutton, fill in etc..
When you are finished, click ok in the editform and all you information will be saved to the correct attributes.

PS. I have not tested the code so there might be some errors in it.

Rolf

Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

AmenAbdou — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:59:54 GMT

Wonderful, I was on the right track with what I was doing. Thank you so much.

Re: Checkboxes to turn on/off tabs

AmenAbdou — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:13:46 GMT

So I implimented the code and it worked like a charm, but I changed the code just a little to shorten it up. I also applied it to the intermediate directions as well so I changed the right command to 2 rather than one. I just had to make sure I went back to the radiobuttons and rename the cardinal directions rbtNO, rbtSO, rbtEA, rbtWE to match up with the control names.

Sub rbt_OnClick()
Dim rbt
Set rbt = ThisEvent.Object
Dim pControl
For Each pControl in rbt.Parent.Controls
If pControl.Type = "LABEL" Or pControl.Type = "EDIT" Or pControl.Type = "DOMAINFIELD" Then
If Right(pControl.Name, 2) = Right(rbt.Name, 2) Then
pControl.Visible = True
Else
pControl.Visible = False
End If
End If
Next
Set pControl = Nothing
End Sub

Thanks for all the help, my survey crew loves the new form design.