Al,
I am not sure if I understand completely what you are asking. However, if you have a checkbox in a dataview, when the user clicks on it, the value of the attribute toggles (between true and false) and the checkbox displays with or without a check. If you want to make sure that change is committed to the database, you could put a simple on change microflow on the checkbox to commit the object. Or, when the user clicks a Save button, the current value of the attribute will be saved to the database.
Hope that helps,
Mike