Cannot Use the words “yes’ or ‘No’ in the value lists

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nalaka — Wed Dec 19, 2007 7:12 am

I ma trying to use ‘yes’ and ‘no’ words in valuelists as follows;

[YesNo]

Y = Yes

N = No

But the forms does not disply the required words. If I use some other word other than ‘yes’ or ‘no’ , it displays those words in the form.

Is this a limitaiton on Dataface ? I think that these words are most usefull in common data entry and these are ‘must’ kind of words.

Is there ny workaround for this problem ?

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shannah — Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:36 pm

From: http://ca.php.net/parse_ini_file

Note: There are reserved words which must not be used as keys for ini files. These include: null, yes, no, true, and false. Values null, no and false results in “”, yes and true results in “1”. Characters {}

&~![()” must not be used anywhere in the key and have a special meaning in the value.

Since Dataface uses INI files and the php parse_ini_file function to parse them, it is subject to these constraints.

Workarounds include:

1. Storing the valuelist in the database.

2. Defining the valuelist in the delegate class.

3. Using an alternative notation:

e.g.

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[YesNo] Y=Y N=N

or

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[YesNo] Y="Yes." N="No."

And a clever person can probably come up with something even better. You can try even just wrapping “yes” in quotes

e.g.

Y=”Yes”

and see if that works.. not sure if it will.

-Steve