Setting up a pre-selection of categories and variables for Dashboard users

Question

I need my dashboard to be fully flexible and allow users to pre-select:

a- The reference category from the variable "Group"

b - The variables on which to run the dashboard on.

Then, the dashboard to use these such the code knows that:

Ref = "name of reference group selected"
cols = { list of columns selected}

Is there a way to have a dialogue window populate with the categories of a variable and the names of the columns, that users then pick from, click OK and then the dashboard runs as normal?

Thanks

ih · Answer

You could use a check box instead which does allow multiple selections. As to showing that in multiple columns I don't know of an out-of-box method but you could subset the larger list and display a third of the list in separate check boxes, and then have your script look through the results of each.

Another option, if you want the user to select a column from a list of columns, check out the Column Dialog object. That might give you a quick way to create your whole launch window.

EB101 · Answer

Thank you for the pointers. It is all looking very promising, I have two final questions on this, I did a search on the community and in the scripting guide, but I couldn't see answers so apologise for the basicness.

- Is there a way for users to select multiple options from the radio box?

- My list of columns is very long, and it would be helpful to have the list over 3 columns - is it possible to format the radiobox to display the options over multiple columns?

Thanks!

ih · Answer

You could use rb << Get or rb << Get Selected.  Here is how I found that in the scripting index (available under the help menu):

As to closing the window, a web search for 'jmp new window get user input' took me to the link below which has an example to get you started:

Re: How do I display a text box asking for input from the user.