I found another effect that is new in Notes 6.0 and Notes 6.01 which makes checkboxes disappear. This seems to be different from other reports about checkboxes disappearing when placed in tables or layers. This bug makes checkboxes disappear within a dumb plain text form.
As far as I can see, this seems to be a side effect of the new formula engine.
You can reproduce the problem easily by following these steps:
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Create a new Database
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Create a form called “Form” and create the following fields in the form
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In the first line create a computed field called “computed” with the
following formula:
FIELD checkbox2:=“”; @Unavailable;
This should set the “checkbox2” field to an empty string and leave the
“computed” field as @unavailable (non existent)
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In the second line, write “Checkbox1:”, then create an editable field
of type checkbox, choose what ever selections you want (I use “yes|1”
and “no|0” in my example)
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In the third line, do the same as in the second, but use “Checkbox2” as
text and as fieldname.
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In the fourth line, do the same, but use “Checkbox3”
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Save the form.
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Leave the designer and open the database in Notes
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Create a document of type “Form”, do not change anything and save it.
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Re-open the document and marvel: Checkbox2 has disappeared
You can skip steps 1 to 4 by downloading my demo database which can be found here:
I have already reported this to IBM/Notes