>Again part of the legacy system I'm changing, fopr some reason the author made a field that ellicits a Y/N answer C(1) and codes the original form to check for this, rather than making it logical. I want my new form to have a checkbox.
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>Never come across this requirement before but I thought it would be achievable by putting the expression:
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>=IIF( RteFam.Survey = "Y", .T., .F.)
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>in the .Value property of the checkbox. It doesn't react at all. I tried:
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>=IIF( RteFam.Survey = "Y", 1, 0)
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>but that makes no difference either. Sure I know I can put code in a method to set the checkbox but I just wanted to do it simply, sans code.
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>Why doesn't this work?
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>'ppreciate it.
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>Terry

Terry,

In the properties, try [ UPDATE, in the controlsource this is ]

(RteFam.Survey = 'Y')