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asadimasadim 

Checkboxes not saving

Hi,

 

I have a multiselect (Picklist) field in my object which I try to disply as a list of checkboxes using the following code inside the controller:

 

public List<SelectOption> Items {
			get {
				List<SelectOption> options = new List<SelectOption>();
				Schema.DescribeFieldResult fieldResult = MyObj__c.Checklist__c.getDescribe();
				
				List<Schema.PicklistEntry> ple = fieldResult.getPicklistValues();
				for( Schema.PicklistEntry f : ple)
				{
					options.add(new SelectOption(f.getLabel(), f.getValue()));		
				}
				
				return options;
			}
		}
 
 Checklist__c is the aforementioned Picklist. Inside my VF page I have the following:
 
<apex:selectCheckboxes value="{!MyObj.Checklist__c}">
    <apex:selectOptions value="{!Items}"/>
</apex:selectCheckboxes >
 
 When I hit save I get an error that says Conversion Error setting value 'Option C Option D' for '#{MyObj.Checklist__c}'. My Picklist currently has the values Option A, B, C and D in it. Any ideas what I'm missing here?

Thanks in advance.
 
 


Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
Anand@SAASAnand@SAAS
You are trying to set the value of a multi select picklist from an "Array of Strings". Typically "select:checckboxes" expects an Array to set the selections into.
 
I would change to
 
<apex:selectCheckboxes value="{!ctlr.userSelections}">    <apex:selectOptions value="{!Items}"/></apex:selectCheckboxes >
 where ctlr.userSelections is a List<String> and a controller variable.  In the action method that you are calling, make sure you iterate through this list and set the value to the multi-select picklist (I think you need to separate them with a ';' e.g. Option 1;Option 2)
 
 


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Anand@SAASAnand@SAAS
You are trying to set the value of a multi select picklist from an "Array of Strings". Typically "select:checckboxes" expects an Array to set the selections into.
 
I would change to
 
<apex:selectCheckboxes value="{!ctlr.userSelections}">    <apex:selectOptions value="{!Items}"/></apex:selectCheckboxes >
 where ctlr.userSelections is a List<String> and a controller variable.  In the action method that you are calling, make sure you iterate through this list and set the value to the multi-select picklist (I think you need to separate them with a ';' e.g. Option 1;Option 2)
 
 
This was selected as the best answer
asadimasadim
EDIT: Thanks. That helped a lot. I ran into another issue, which was populating the checkboxes, but that's all fixed now.
Message Edited by asadim on  09-25-2009 12:08 PM


oorellanooorellano
Hi, do you have the fixed code?
Because I'm having the same problem and couldn't fix it.
 
Here is what I have on my page: 
 
<apex:selectCheckboxes value="{!objectTypes}" layout="PageDirection"> 
        <apex:selectOptions value="{!objectTypesOptions}"/> 
</apex:selectCheckboxes> 
 
and on my controller objectsTypes is a List<String> and objectTypesOptions is a List<SelectOption>
 
Don't know what is wrong =S
 
Thanks,
Orlando