>>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
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>Terry,
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>In the properties, try [ UPDATE, in the controlsource this is ]
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>(RteFam.Survey = 'Y')
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Thank you, Gregory

I assume you mean in the .value property (if not, which else?)

I did that and got Data Type mismatch error. This is strange as the expression SHOULD yield T/F.