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a213812
Registered: Dec 2 2010
Posts: 10
Answered

Hello everyone,
I am sure that I am asking a much repeated question so please forgive my ignorance.
 
I have created a form that contains questions in sections and each section has radio buttons. However not all the sections will be relevant to each person who fills in the form so I would like to add a check box at the top of each section that when ticked will disable the radio buttons in that particular section. I have tried all sorts but to no avail.
 
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may be able to achieve this?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 8.0, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Accepted Answer
Hi a213812,

Here is a tutorial from the AUC Learning Center on disabling or greying-out form fields-
http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/09/js_disabling_fields

You don't say if you created your form in Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer. If you are using LiveCycle Designer you can actually have areas of the form be completely invisible to the user unless certain selections are made. If that is what you want to accomplish, there are some good on-demand e-seminars on creating forms and scripting for LiveCycle Designer in the Learning Center that go over the specifics of making those dynamic features work.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
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a213812
Registered: Dec 2 2010
Posts: 10
Hello Dimitri,
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. The tutorial solved my problem so I don't have to throw my computer up the garden now :o)