Re: [phpesp-general] large list of checkboxes, How to handle?

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

If there is a logical ordering to the options, which it
seems there is, you could also break it up into ranges, so
you have 5 questions, each with 100 options (xxx-yyy,
yyy-zzz etc).  You would probably still want to implement
the aforementioned javascript magic, but breaking it up
might make it less painful.

-James

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Matthew Gregg wrote:

> Yuck.  Some javascript magic that will let you do: a lookup, select,
> then add to list of selections, is probably the best way to handle it.
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:27:55AM -0500, Emmett Bearden wrote:
> > I have a survey where there are more than 500 possible checkboxes for
> > one question.  Not only that but the question is repeated upto 50 times
> > in one survey.  It resembles this:
> >
> > Question: For each patient please indicate all ADA code descriptions.
> > Answers:
> > D0120 Periodic oral evaluation
> > D0140 Limited oral evaluation - problem focused
> > D0150 Comprehensive oral evaluation
> > D0160 Detailed and extensive oral evaluation - problem  focused, by
> > report
> > D0170 Re-evaluation-limited, problem focused (Established patient; not
> > postoperative visit)
> > ...
> > D9974 Internal bleaching - per tooth
> > D9999 Unspecified adjunctive procedure, by report
> >
> > This seems unwieldy and there must be a better solution.  My first idea
> > is to  create a new way to view multiple choices by creating a listbox
> > rather than checkboxes.  Now this helps a little in that it becomes
> > more manageable on the screen but is still a pain to scroll up and down
> >  500 choices.  I plan on coupling this listbox display technique with a
> > javascript that does autocompletion so that when you start typing a
> > code like "D20..."  it will automatically list all codes that fit that
> > criteria.
> >
> > Has anyone done something similar?  If not I'll get started.
> >
> > chad.
> >
>
>