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title: Radio Buttons Screen Input Component
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description: Let users choose from a list of options in a radio button format.
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# Radio Buttons Screen Input Component

Let users choose from a list of options in a radio button format.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;"><a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.flow_ref_supported_editions.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5" title="Learn about the editions and user interfaces that support Flow Builder. Some Flow Builder features integrate with other Salesforce products that require additional licenses.">View supported editions.</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Configure the Radio Buttons Component

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small ">
        <colgroup>
          <col style="width:24%">
          <col style="width:76%">
        </colgroup>
        <thead class="slds-text-title_caps ">
          <tr class="">
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d190249e68">Attribute</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d190249e71">Description</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">API Name</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">The API name of the component.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">An API name can include underscores and
                alphanumeric characters without spaces. It must begin with a letter and can’t end
                with an underscore. It also can’t have two consecutive underscores.</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Choice</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">
              <p>Add at least one choice, record choice set, or picklist choice set to this
                component. Available only when you add a choice component to the screen
                component.</p>
              <p>If you select a dynamic Choice resource such as a collection choice set or record
                choice set, ensure that each value in the Choice resource is unique. Otherwise, if
                a user selects a duplicate value, the value is set incorrectly in Salesforce.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">All multi-select choice components use a text data type, but radio buttons and
                picklists can also use numbers or Boolean choices.</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Component Type</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">
              <p dir="ltr">Modify a choice component type.</p>
              <p dir="ltr">If the user can select only one option, these component types become
                available:</p>
              <ul>
                <li>Picklist</li>

                <li>Radio Buttons</li>

              </ul>
              <p dir="ltr">If the user can select multiple options, these component types become
                available:</p>
              <ul>
                <li>Checkbox Group</li>

                <li>Multi-select Picklist</li>

              </ul>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Data Type</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">Controls which choices are available for this component. For example, if you
              choose Number, you can’t select a Text choice.</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Decimal Places</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">
              <p>Controls the number of digits to the right of the decimal point up to 17
                places. If you leave this field blank or set it to zero, only whole numbers appear
                when your flow runs.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available only when the data type is Number or
                Currency.</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Default Value</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">Pre-selected choice for the component. If the associated screen isn’t run or
              the conditions for component visibility aren’t met, the stored value of the
              component is <code>null</code>.</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Disabled</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">
              <p>If set to true, the user can’t modify the value. The default value is
                false.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">This attribute accepts a resource with a Boolean value.</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Label</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">The text that appears with the screen component that tells the running user how
              to use it.</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Let Users Select Multiple Options</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">Specifies whether the user can choose only one option or multiple options. When
              you select Yes for Let Users Select Multiple Options, Data Type is automatically set
              to Text, and non-text Choice resources are cleared from the component
              configuration.</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Provide Help</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">Give your users more context with this screen component. The text you enter is
              available in an info bubble next to the component.</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Attribute" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e68 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Require</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e71 ">Requires users to select a value before they can move to the next
              screen.</td>

          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

## Set the Component Visibility

Specify the logic that determines when the flow displays the component.

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small ">
        <colgroup>
          <col style="width:24%">
          <col style="width:76%">
        </colgroup>
        <thead class="slds-text-title_caps ">
          <tr class="">
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d190249e280">Option</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d190249e283">Description</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Option" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e280 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">When to Display Component</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e283 ">
              <p>Configure when the component is displayed by using conditional logic. </p>
              <p>You can set the components to:</p>
              <dl>

                <dt style="font-weight:bold;padding-top:.25rem;">Always</dt>

                <dd style="padding-left:1.5rem;padding-bottom:.5rem;">Always display the component.</dd>


                <dt style="font-weight:bold;padding-top:.25rem;">When all conditions are met (AND)</dt>

                <dd style="padding-left:1.5rem;padding-bottom:.5rem;">Display the component when all of the conditions that you define are met.
                  Define at least one condition.</dd>


                <dt style="font-weight:bold;padding-top:.25rem;">When any condition is met (OR)</dt>

                <dd style="padding-left:1.5rem;padding-bottom:.5rem;">Display the component when at least one of the conditions that you define is
                  met. Define at least one condition.</dd>


                <dt style="font-weight:bold;padding-top:.25rem;">When custom conditional logic is met</dt>

                <dd style="padding-left:1.5rem;padding-bottom:.5rem;">Display the component when the condition logic that you define is met.
                  Define at least one condition and specify condition logic.</dd>

              </dl>
            </td>

          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

## Specify the Behavior of Values on Revisited Screens

Specify what this component does when a user enters a value, navigates to a previous screen, and then returns to the screen with this component.

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small ">
        <colgroup>
          <col style="width:24%">
          <col style="width:76%">
        </colgroup>
        <thead class="slds-text-title_caps ">
          <tr class="">
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d190249e371">Option</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d190249e374">Description</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Option" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e371 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Use values from when the user last visited this screen</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e374 ">The component retains the values that the user specified and doesn’t update the
              values to reflect changes made on previous screens.</td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Option" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e371 ">
              <strong class="uicontrol">Refresh inputs to incorporate changes elsewhere in the flow</strong>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d190249e374 ">
              <p>The component updates the user-specified values to reflect changes made on
                previous screens.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;" id="flow_ref_elements_screencmp_radio__d4333e119"><a name="flow_ref_elements_screencmp_radio__d4333e119"><!-- --></a>If you pause and then
                resume the flow, the flow retains user-specified values only in Checkbox, Checkbox
                Group, Currency, Long Text Area, Multi-Select Picklist, Number, Password,
                Picklist, Radio Buttons, and Text components.</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

#### See Also

- [Standard Flow Screen Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.flow_ref_elements_screencmp.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce provides several standard screen components that extend the types of input fields available in screens.")