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Creating Forms

Check boxes allow users to select one or more options from a group of possible options. Therefore, users can select a number of options instead of just one.

In order to use the check box form field, two processes must be completed: inserting the check box form field into a form and assigning the form field a name-value pair.

• Inserting Check Boxes

• Assigning the Name-Value Pair

The following links may also be helpful as you work with form fields:

• Inserting the First Form Field

• The Form Field Properties Pane

• Terminology

Inserting Check Boxes

1. Place your cursor within the form boundary where you would like to insert the form field
   For information on inserting a form boundary, refer to Creating Forms.

2. From the Insert menu, select Form Objects » Check Box
   OR
   From the Forms tab on the Insert bar, click CHECKBOX
   A check box will appear.

3. Type any desired text before or after the check box

4. Proceed with Assigning the Name-Value Pair

Assigning the Name-Value Pair

The name should identify what option the check box represented for the user (e.g., the location check box below is an option to answer "location" in response to the question and is named "location"). In a group of check boxes, users can select more than one.

The default value is "on." The value of a check box is not visible to the user (as with text boxes). The value should indicate what type of question is being asked (e.g., a group of check boxes that are all answers to the same question about liking UW-Eau Claire may all have the value "like").

When a user submits the form, perhaps the inputs are sent to you -- the form developer -- via email; the name of the check box will be matched with the value of the check box. The information the form developer receives may look like this:

name: value (e.g., Location: like, Majors: like).

Therefore, the name identifies what check boxes the user selected to answer the question, and the values indicate what question was being asked.

To assign the name-value pair

1. After inserting the check box, click it

2. In the Check Box Properties pane, in the Check Box text box, type the name for the checkbox
   

3. In the Checked Value text box, type the value for the checkbox

4. For Initial State, select Checked or Unchecked
   Checked means that, by default, the check box will appear checked when the page loads.