Automatic Export dependant on checkbox

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Automatic Export dependant on checkbox	4/15/2010 4:02:00 AM
PHPRunner General questions
S swanside author Hello. We export data from the jobs table as an xml file, we have a checkbox that gets checked if a user is going to export the file. 90% of the time it works, but some users tick the box, answer the phone, deal with something and then forget to actually export the data. The data has to be exported as it gets sent off to an engineers PDA, so I am looking for a way that, if a user ticks the export box which is in the add new page, it will when the user presses the Save button, it will pop up with the prompt to save the export as an xml file. Is this possible? Thanks Paul.


B	battyone 4/16/2010
	Hello. We export data from the jobs table as an xml file, we have a checkbox that gets checked if a user is going to export the file. 90% of the time it works, but some users tick the box, answer the phone, deal with something and then forget to actually export the data. The data has to be exported as it gets sent off to an engineers PDA, so I am looking for a way that, if a user ticks the export box which is in the add new page, it will when the user presses the Save button, it will pop up with the prompt to save the export as an xml file. Is this possible? Thanks Paul. If you are using a checkbox, and I am assuming you are using a type int/tinyint for the field in the DB that it corresponds to, you can always go to events and "After record added" do a quick if($values["checkboxfieldname")!=0){ //<Code to display prompt, or better code to automatically do the export> }