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This question is really tough to answer. What do you mean by a text field with 7 parts? Are you talking about the options for the data entered in the field, a Combo Box with 7 items, or soemthing else?

Do you want the P to appear along with data that are calculated, user supplied, or something else?

I'm going out on a limb and assume you want one of two options. Option 1. a P along with user supplied data. If so, set up an Arbitrary Mask for the text field. In the Format tab of the Text Ffield Properties, slect Custom from the Select format category pull-down menu. Scroll the options and select Arbitrary Mask.

In the text box below the Arbitrary Mask selection, type P999999. The P is a fixed character. The 9's represent any numeric value a user types in the text field. Therefore when the user clicks in the field and types 123456 the result reads P123456.

Option 2. If you want the value calculated, choose None from the Select format category. In your JavaScript you might have a calculation like:

var f = this.getField("first field");
Var g = this.getField("secondField");
event.value = "P" + (f.value + g.value);

Hope this helps.

ted

Thank you Ted. You are awesome.
Your first assumption is correct. But I cannot see a Format Tab in the LiveCycle Designer 8.0 program to be able to follow your steps in option one of your response. Am I missing something? Is there anyway I can reveal the Format Tab?

Ray,
Ted's answer was for an AcroForm PDF. You need to state up front what forms technology you're using. In Designer (i.e. XFA forms) the methodology is the same, but the details are different. See the answers posted by Carl and me for your other post on this.

Cheers,