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Automatically select a value in a field based on response in another

2011-04-08 18:06:14

adobedolly

Registered: Apr 8 2011

Posts: 2

I have 10 possible wordy character responses for field2, each of which are based on the user input in field1.

Example: if the user enters 1 in field1, I want abc1 to populate field2, if 2 is entered in field2, abc2 populates field2, etc. I don't want the user to be able to change the two independently.

Is there a way to do this?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows

2011-04-09 00:43:38

George_Johnson

Registered: Jul 6 2008

Posts: 1876

adobedolly wrote:

..., if 2 is entered in field2, abc2 populates field2, etc.

Do you mean if 2 is entered in field1? Do you want field2 to be editable by the user? What should happen if they enter something in field1 for which there is no corresponding text for field2?

2011-04-09 08:11:23

adobedolly

Registered: Apr 8 2011

Posts: 2

Thank you George, yes, if 2 is entered in field 1, populate field 2 with a pre-determined choice. A better description might have been to think of a check-out where a customer chooses an item (field1) and that item's price would be added to the sub-total (field2). In this case, it isn't pricing so it's not absolutely necessary that the user cannot edit field2.

Field1 is validated so there wouldn't be any options without corresponding text in field2.

2011-04-09 13:56:32

George_Johnson

Registered: Jul 6 2008

Posts: 1876

You can set up an object to associate an item name with the corresponding price. For example:

var prices = {};
prices["item1"] = 1.23;
prices["item2"] = 4.56;
prices["item3"] = 3.14;
prices["item4"] = 2.72;

Then, to retrieve the price if an item, which is given by the value in field1, you'd just do something like:

// Get the item name
var item = getField("field1").valueAsString;
 
// Get the associated price
var price = prices[item];