Calculating fields

This sounds like you are having a problem with the field calculaiton order. If the form was created with Acrobat and not LiveCycle Designer, you need to 'Forms => Edit the form in Acrobat' and then you can access the 'Forms => Edit Fields => Set Field Calculation Order".

Yes, this form was created in Acrobat, not LiveCycle.

I went to Set Field Calculation, but the fields that were listed in the Set Field Calculation box are not a part of the calculation I'm having trouble with.

I THINK that I fixed my problem! One of my fields I was adding had a default value I had written with a comma in the number... i.e. 1,300. I changed it to 1300 and now my calculation works.

It's very strange, because I was adding all whole numbers, and just because the comma was in there, I was given an answer with decimal points.

Thanks for your help and sorry to bother!

"The value you have entered does not match the format of the field [xxx.xx]" I get this response in six of my calculated fields on a form. Once there is data in the first row of my form all is fine. I have checked all my field formatting and all are set to "number" (don't think the $ sign is significant). But the fields that give me the error are custom calculation fields with

var a=this.getField("xxx.xx");
var b=this.getField("zzz.zz");
event.value=(a.value)/(b.value);

But like I said all is fine after data is entered into the fist row of fields????

The value you entered does not match....?

Spirit,

The "this.getField(sFieldName')" is used to get the field object and you can not set the field picture.

The problem was that the OP uses a character string data for a default value, the coma in the default value. The default value should have been entered with just a decimal point and not other formatting strings. The formatting strings are for the display format only.

Thanks for the info, were good now.