Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Adding Check Boxes and Option Buttons

Check boxes and option buttons share a common property—they have two states: on (selected) or off (cleared.) Check boxes bind to a single field; multiple option buttons automatically form an InfoPath option (button) group, which also binds to a single field. If you’ve designed Access forms, you’ll find the default behavior of InfoPath’s check boxes and option groups to be almost identical to their Access counterparts.

Adding Check Boxes

The NWOrdersEC.xsn template includes a check box to indicate whether an order line item was backordered. Check boxes most commonly bind to fields of the XML Schema’s boolean datatype, which is specified for the backordered field, but it’s possible to specify any of the eight ...