From the course: Access 2016: Forms and Reports

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Control input with option groups

Control input with option groups

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Control input with option groups

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- [Voiceover] Yes no data type fields have several different ways that the user can interact with them. The most common is with the check box, option button, or a toggle button. We can also group several of these elements together in what's called an option group to deal with more complex data entry. We're gonna continue working with the simple form to capture product feedback that we started in the last movie. Let's go ahead and double click on that to open it up. Now the form so far has a field for the product ID, feedback, and the customer ID. If we open up the feedback table we'll see that we're missing fields for the rating and the public field. Let's go ahead and add both of those to our product feedback form. I'll go back to my form, and we'll switch it into design view. On the design tab in the controls group we have three options on the second page I wanna look at. This one here is the check box, this one over here that looks like an eyeball is called the option button, and…

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