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I have a form where the requestor can select multiple software application for a new employee (a Choice - Multiple) Action.
Each piece of software has a license cost assigned.
We want to show the requester the software the total cost of all the selections and the individual costs. We would be looking up the costs from a table.

For example:

The requestor chooses:
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Project

I want to display (sample costs)
    Microsoft Visio $100
    Microsoft Project $200

   Total $300

They should see this before they hit submit on the form. I’m sure others have done this but I don’t see anything obvious.

Hi @Scottg 

 

I assume the software prices are listed in a repeating section.  For a new responsive form the way to do this is to use a rule to populate the value:

If you’re using a data lookup control to get the price you may also want to switch to using an external data variable with a rule to populate a number or currency control as well.  It makes the overall ruleset easier to work with since the data lookup returns a text value.


No the choices are not in a repeating section.
It is a Choice - Multiple section. The requestor can select any they need.
We have a cross reference table with the current values for each.
It looks like this:

 

 


Hi @Scottg 

I don’t see an easy method for this using the multiple choice control.  It does become extremely easy utilizing the method I described above.  I’d probably look at designing the form with the repeating section and a dropdown single choice control for the moment.

I’d also look at submitting an idea at https://ideas.nintex.com/ to improve the collection handling on the multiple choice control so you can do things such as specify data output types, assign multiple collections for dynamic population to be able to specify display option | value pairs, and additional collection functions.


EDITED:
But putting a single choice in the repeating section would require the user to select eact item individually and select Add row for each item.

I don’t want to make the user need to hit New row for every item of software they need. This would generate alot of extra work for the requestor over the simple multiple choice option.

I don’t use repeating sections because I don’t see the value for the end user. Maybe I’m missing something.


Answering myself.
Maybe I need to change the “Add Row” button to “Add to Cart”

But it is still additional work for the end user. I’m trying to avoid that.


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