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Calculated field results displaying before information is added

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2010-03-18 14:14:59
JayMack75
Registered: Mar 18 2010
Posts: 7

I am building a sheet which will allow me to calculate payments for my clients. My problem is that I have entered the code to calculate the fields when the data is entered, but the "balance" amount shows on all of the remaining empty fields, even though I have not entered the "payment amount" for them.

I may be confusing, so I'll do my best to replicate it on here:

Date | Payment Value | Balance
| Balance
| Balance
| Balance
| Balance

I only want the balance to display after a payment value has been entered. Can someone please help? Is it something that I may need to change in the JavaScript? If so, I'm pretty much ignorant on how to program it.

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2010-03-18 14:49:01
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
You probably gave all of them the same name. Each field needs to have a unique name, or they will all have the same value.

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2010-03-18 15:30:58
#2
JayMack75
Registered: Mar 18 2010
Posts: 7
No, they all have unique names to each field. I've calculated them using this code:

event.value = this.getField("Number1").value - this.getField("Number 2").value;

I found something that seems to be what I am looking for to rectify my problem, however I can not get it to work. Maybe you could help with it?

The code I found:

if (NumericField1 > 0) then
NumericField1 * 10;
$.presence = "visible";
else
0;
$.presence = "invisible";
endif

I only want "Number2" to appear (or be visible) if there is a value in "Number1"
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2010-03-18 16:08:24
#3
JayMack75
Registered: Mar 18 2010
Posts: 7
I know that the above code only deals with one number, but I dont have any idea how to add the second number and still have the code work effectively. The above code also gives the product of the number, and I am looking for the difference of two numbers.

I basically need this and do not understand how to turn it into code:

Number1 - Number2 with the difference only being visible if number1's value is greater than 0.
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2010-03-21 15:05:00
#4
JayMack75
Registered: Mar 18 2010
Posts: 7
Anyone have any suggestions?
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