Automate check box group selections.

Question

Hello there, 
     Is there a way to programmatically select checkbox group items and save them into the context.
Thanks
Srinivas

Answer 1

Hi Srinivas,
   You are doing the selection part completely wrong.
wdContext.nodeCheckbox_GroupList().setSelected(adminOfficeIndex, true);
The above code will not select a check  box. This is used to select elements in a table.
First you have to check to which attributes the checkboxes are bound in the context. Let us know the context structure.
You should also know that Checkbox will take data only from the lead selected element of the context node. For instance you have a context node Checkbox_GroupList. The node should have a cardinality 1:1. If you have six checkboxes then you need to have six attributes of type boolean in that node. Each checkbox's checked property need to be bound to an attribute in the node Checkbox_GroupList node.
For selecting the checkbox the code should be some thing like this.
wdContext.nodeCheckbox_GroupList().currentCheckbox_GroupListElement().setCheckBox1(true);
Like wise all the six attribute values need to be checked.
In your case I guess you are comparing the attribute value with the contents of an array. If you know exactly what the names in officeList array is going to be then you can name the context attribute with the exact name then use your code like this,
String[] officeList;
               officeList = wdContext.currentUser_Search_ResultsElement().getOffice_List().split(",");     
          int adminOfficeIndex = -1;     
          while(finalCheckbox.hasNext()){               
               adminOfficeIndex++;
               String adminOffice = finalCheckbox.next().toString();          ;          
                    IPublicRepNetAdminComp.ICheckbox_GroupListElement officeNames =
                              wdContext.createCheckbox_GroupListElement();
                    wdContext.nodeCheckbox_GroupList().addElement(officeNames);     
                    officeNames.setGroup_Names(adminOffice);
                                   //loop through user group to compare, if present make the selection
                    for(int i =0; i < officeList.length ; i++){     
                         if(adminOffice.trim().equalsIgnoreCase(officeList<i>.trim())){
                              wdContext.nodeCheckbox_GroupList().currentCheckbox_GroupListElement().setAttributeValue(adminOffice.trim(), Boolean(true));
                              break;
Make sure that you make the node Checkbox_GroupList cardinality 1:1 and name the attributes exactly the values in officeList.
Sanyev