Form question - how to

Here is my solution.

I added a text field and three radio buttons. the values for the radio button respectively are "One", "Two", "Three".

var myVal = getField("Rad.MyChoice");
if(myVal.value === "Off")
{
this.event.value = "";
}
else
{
this.event.value = myVal.value;
}

I added this script to my text field in a custom calculation script that I want the value of the selected radio button to appear.

I assume I should copy that exactly. On my radio buttons I noticed they are all checked. How do I remove them. Do I need to rename them all (Igave each a seperate value so there would be no duplicates), they are marked required ( should that be changed?) or do something else?

You would change the "Rad.MyChoice" radio button group to the name you are using. I don't know if there is a better way to do this and I would hope if there is that someone with more scripting skills would jump and tell.

As I was testing this out I went Forms > Clear Form to reset the buttons to thier default state which is nothing checked. This will of course reset all fields in the document.I don't think you need to change the required setting.

We are talking about radio buttons and not check boxes right? You may know allready that you can make check boxes behave similar to radio buttons in that only one can be checked. One of the main differences is that any of the check boxes in the group can be unchecked so none are checked and once you click on a radio button in a group at least one of them will be checked unless you reset or clear the form. To make the check boxes work like radio buttons you simply give all of the check boxes the same name but each one has a unique export value.

Not seeing how your radio buttons are set up I can only guess that each radio is not in it's own group. In other words radio buttons in a group need to have the same name.

Does this help?

They are radio buttons, but I chose a check style. The names of the bottons are APO (which each having it's own value). I am not doing something right. I can click more than one option in the list and it doesn't read in the text box. and it doesn't register in my text box. I wrote the codes like this: var APO=getField("Rad.APO");
if(APO.value === "Off")
{
this.event.value ="";
}
else
{
this.event.value = APO.value;}

If I sent you the form could you tell?

I could try. Can you post the form somewhere?

not sure where to post it other than emailing it to you. Is there someplace within the forum to do that? It doesn't have anything sensitive it.

You could use acrobat.com
Create an Adobe ID (free). You provide an email address and your password.
Look over the asociated help information re: types of shared links.

Upload file to acrobat.com then use the "share" feature.
The link gets put to your clipboard.
Past it into a text file for placement into a post here.


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