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Autocalculate Month

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2010-05-17 13:08:23
paulaeddy
Registered: May 14 2010
Posts: 22
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I have a form that I only need the name of the month to automatically populate based on an initial month entered by the user. For example, if the user enters "June", the next 11 fields would auto populate with the other months in order.

I can't seem to figure out how to calculate this? Thanks for your help!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.3, Windows
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2010-05-17 13:52:41
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Have you tired using an array of the month's names. The following code will display the next 11 months, but not knowing your field names will make providing specific code more difficult.
// name of 12 monthsvar aMonths = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December") // name of 12 months doubledvar aMonths24 = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December", "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"); // name of month to start withvar sInput = "June"; // find index of imported monthfor(i = 0; i < aMonths.length; i++) {if(sInput == aMonths[i]){break;} // end input = month} // end index loop if(i < aMonths.length) {// process the next 11 elementsfor(j = i; j < (i + 11); j++) {app.alert( (j - i) + " month: " + aMonths24[j] );} // end for 11 months} else {app.alert('Invalid Month');}

George Kaiser

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2010-05-17 14:02:52
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paulaeddy
Registered: May 14 2010
Posts: 22
The field names are: Month 1, Month 2, Month 3, etc through Month 12. Could I use code for each field? Example: Month 2 = (Month 1 + 1) of the array, Month 3 = (Month 2 + 1) of the array, etc? Thanks!
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2010-05-17 14:37:12
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jimhealy
Team
Registered: Jan 2 2006
Posts: 146 
var sInputMonth = getField("Month 1").value;var aMonths = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");var iStartMonth = aMonths.indexOf(sInputMonth);if(iStartMonth < 0) {app.alert("Error! Invalid Month.");}else {var y = 2;var x = iStartMonth + 1;while(x != iStartMonth) {if(x > 11)x = 0;else {getField("Month " + y.toString()).value = aMonths[x];y++;x++;}}}

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2010-05-17 14:53:30
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paulaeddy
Registered: May 14 2010
Posts: 22
Perfect! Thanks soo much!
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