Radio Button Group Name

Scope

• Simulation content object > Radio/Checkbox macro > Control > Radio Button Group Name property

Purpose

This property allows you to group multiple Radio Button controls into a group, so that when one button in the group is selected, all other buttons in the group are automatically deselected. This is done by entering the same text in this property for all buttons you want to include in the group (the exact text does not matter, as long as it is unique to this group - it does not appear anywhere).

In theory this is useful for mimicking the behavior of the actual application (especially where a Radio Button other than the one that needs to be selected is already selected), but the functionality does not really work as the only way to have a group of Radio Buttons is to have multiple Radio/Checkbox macros, and then each macro needs to be executed in turn, when you really only want one of them (the one relating to the required option) to be executed. You could put them all inside a Branch macro, but then providing suitable Bubble Text requires a fair amount of effort and finagling. In general, the use of this property is strongly discouraged.