Checkboxes are generally used for people to provide an online declaration or consent. For example:
I confirm that I have read and agreed to the organisation's terms and conditions
I consent to my child being given first aid
Once they have ticked that box, if the description wording is then retrospectively changed, you have a potential problem in that some people agreed to the original wording and some to the new, with no record of which is which. Plus, if they said that they agreed with one thing, then the administrator shouldn't be able to unilaterally change their consent to something quite different.
So, if you realise, after people have started filling out the form, that the checkbox wording wasn't right, then we recommend that you:
- Mark the old checkbox field as not viewable or editable by the member (effectively unpublishing it)
- Create a new checkbox field with the new wording.
If you make the new checkbox field a required field, then they will be re-presented with the form, and asked to tick the box:
- the next time they go through checkout, if it is in a membership form
- the next time they renew their subscription, if it is in a subscription form
- the next time they purchase a ticket to the event, if it is in an event form.
