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automatically populate fields

dbertanjoli
Registered: Nov 18 2007
Posts: 30

I have 3 combo boxes on my form. First box contains categories of diseases, second box names of the disease and third box code of the diseases. What we would like to do is if someone select the code the category and the name are field automatically or if someone select the name the code and category are field in automatically? Can this be done?

Many thanks,
Debbie

p.s. I am new at programming

tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Hi Debbie,

Yes you can do what you describe using Acrobat JavaScript. For an easy way to code the fields, take a look at my 101FormseTips.pdf document you can download on Acrobat Users. look at tip #78 in that document and you can see how a similar set of fields are coded.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.