Solved: Reset and deselect radio buttons

Anonymous · ‎08-25-2020

I want to be able to reset my radio button with another button and be able to deselect each button. Just using the command doesn't reset because in my items I have RadioItems.Value This in my onchange for the button- Patch(GUAT,ThisItem,{Radio:Radio4.SelectedText.Value}); This is the default for the radio buttons - ThisItem.Radio. When i try to use reset nothing happens. I want to be able to mass deselect with a button and individually uncheck radio buttons. Is this possible?

RandyHayes · ‎08-27-2020

@Anonymous

Jumping back in for a notice...there appears to be some unusual activity with Radio controls going on in a Gallery. We were working this in another thread and there does indeed seem to be some issues with that control. You can work around it, but I am working on a writeup on the issue.

As for clearing a Radio control in a Gallery - yes, you can do this fairly easily. However it does experience the issue we are seeing.

If you put a Toggle on your screen and call it tglResetRadios then set the OnCheck property to UpdateContext({lclResetRadios:false}) then set the Default property to lclResetRadios

Then in your Gallery, place a control to reset the Radio. On the OnSelect action formula, put the following (and this is based on the conversation in the other thread for names):

Patch(GUAT, ThisItem, {Radio: Blank()}); UpdateContext({lclResetRadios:true})

Then on your Radio Control in the Gallery, set the Reset property to tglResetRadios.Value

This will then give you individual reset control over the Radio controls in the Gallery.

HOWEVER - this is flaky at the moment based on the other issue we found. Even though your Radio will show nothing selected, in some cases the Selected property of the Radio will still have a value.

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BrianS · ‎08-25-2020

You should be able to use a variable in the Reset property of the Radio buttons. If you set that value to "true", that will reset the control. You will then need to Set that variable back to false - you can just have both Set commands on the button -

Set(var_Reset,true);Set(var_Reset,false)

Anonymous · ‎08-25-2020

I put both of those in the reset property and it says behavior function in a non-behavior property. @BrianS

BrianS · ‎08-25-2020

In the Reset property of the radio control you need to put the variable (var_Reset in the previous post). Then put the 2 Set commands in the OnSelect of a Button. The button will then reset all the controls with that variable in the Reset property.

Anonymous · ‎08-25-2020

I put the two commands on the button and set the reset property on the radio button and nothing happened still @BrianS . But the more important part is being able to deselect individual buttons can this be done?

BrianS · ‎08-25-2020

I do not know of a way to deselect individual buttons. Check that this is what you have:

If you want to disable individual items you may need to use a different control

RandyHayes · ‎08-25-2020

@Anonymous @BrianS
I don't mean to crash the messages, but the Default property on the Radio control is ThisItem.Radio. If that has a value, when you Reset the control, it will reset to that value (which is why you see nothing happening).

@BrianS solution is what you can use for Resetting controls in general, but Reset means "Reset to Default". If you have a default value, that is what you will reset to.

You need to add additional logic to change the Default property if you wish for it to go to nothing.

@Anonymous can you explain more about what you mean by "deselect individual buttons"?

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Anonymous · ‎08-27-2020

Yes, for instance if I have a button in my gallery and there are 10 items and I accidentally select 3 when i only wanted to select to is there a way I can click on the radio button again and deselect just one. So the other two would remain selected. It is the same functionality as unchecking a check box, I want to be able to do the same thing just with a radio button. @RandyHayes

BrianS · ‎08-27-2020

Radio buttons only allow for a single selection of multiple choices - are you sure you are referring to the correct control?

Anonymous · ‎08-27-2020

Yes..I know there is a way to unselect a selected radio button because I have done it, but it was just giving me errors.

For instance look at 16, I have selected issues, ok so say I change my mind and want to leave that item blank. I will click issues and it will remove the selection. I have achieved this functionality so I know it can work, but I just couldn't get it to work perfectly. @BrianS