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icon5.gif   Cancelling an Roption selection in Edit., posted by David Pilgram on Thu Jul 2 09:39:40 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Cancelling an Roption selection in Edit., posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Jul 2 10:04:13 2009 
       icon14.gif   Re: Cancelling an Roption selection in Edit., posted by David Pilgram on Thu Jul 2 11:33:48 2009 
Message ID: 66432     Entry time: Thu Jul 2 11:33:48 2009     In reply to: 66431
Icon: Agree  Author: David Pilgram  Author Email: David.Pilgram@epost.org.uk 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.6-2226 
Subject: Re: Cancelling an Roption selection in Edit. 
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I don't know if anyone else would be interested or need this...
> > 
> > If you have an Roption, and it is not required (maybe...) or have a preset attribute, it is possible to make an
> > entry and have replies without any of the attributes in that Roption being selected.
> > 
> > However, once an attribute in that Roption has been selected, it is not possible to go back (editing) to the
> > condition before one was selected on that entry (so far as I can tell).  
> > 
> > Is a way of cancelling all the possible attributes in an Roption practical?  Would others want it?  It is
> > possible with options, as there is a "please select" which can be used to cancel whichever attribute in the
> > option that has been selected.
> > 
> > Regards,  David
> 
> The easiest to achieve this is to define another option. Assume you have the three options
> 
> One, Two, Three
> 
> and you want to "unselect" them. So just add a fourth option like
> 
> Unspecified, One, Two, Three
> 
> so if you do not want any of the "One, Two, Three", just click on "Unspecified" and you get what you want.

This is sort of what I do now, I just wondered if there was a way of clearing that would leave the field completely
blank in the YYMMDDa.log file.

Thanks.
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