Radio button to Select Month and get Number of month.

[DavidGonzalez_93]

Hi Community,

I’m working on an interactive app where I need to create an interface that allows users to select a month of the year with radio buttons. Based on their selection, I’d like to return the corresponding number of the month (e.g., January = 1, October = 10).

Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to implement this?

Thanks in advance!

[binuacs]

@DavidGonzalez_93 instead of radio button use the drop down tool where you can manually add month name  and month number  (name and value)

[DavidGonzalez_93]

Yes, that was actually my initial idea. However, we’re currently working with Alteryx Server 2024.1, and for some reason, the values in the dropdown tool are not populating correctly. That’s why I decided to switch to using radio buttons instead.

[Gaurav_Dhama_ · Accepted solution]

Can you tell whats wrong in drop down tool?

Alternatively, you can just get the selection from user and match it with a prefixed list [input Text] and then append the output to your data and use the column.

Another approach, All action tools connecting to same location, use

if [#1] THEN (corresponding number) ELSE “” ENDIF.

What will happen is that only the radio button which is true will update its value, rest will just pass empty string/nothing.

[DavidGonzalez_93]

Hi Dhama,

Thanks for your suggestion!

Regarding the dropdown issue: it worked fine on my desktop, but when I published the workflow to the server, it stopped retrieving data. I was using the External Source option in the List Values, with a query to populate the dropdown. However, I realized that on the server, the dropdown only displays manually entered values. So, I switched to using a static list instead, and that solved the problem.

Also, I tried your idea with the radio buttons just out of curiosity, and it worked perfectly! 

Thanks again for sharing your approach!