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How to leave radio buttons unchecked as a default on opening form?

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2010-08-03 06:47:41
Abbica
Registered: Feb 4 2009
Posts: 38

Hi, I have looked around on this topic and basically, all it is giving is java solutions and all sorts on coding for writing this into the xml code, which unfortunately, I am not at all good with. Is there anyway to select a property option in either Acro Pro 9 or LiveCycle to leave the radio's unchecked by default, my boss doesn't want anything selected on the form and when you select one it won't let you deselect what you have selected, it will only let you toggle between the two buttons. Only check boxes seem to work for this but I think we need to use radio buttons as this will be used for coding for upload to a system.

If there is no design view solution, can anyone please tell me where I should place the coding for my two boxes in here please, I am totally confused as to what code and to go where. Any help greatly appreciated.

Sorry, can I just ask before I go, is there a way in Acro Pro 9 to view coding, I can't find it, had to go to liveCycle?

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2010-08-09 19:42:09
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Drogan
Registered: Jan 26 2009
Posts: 8
When you add the radio button, go to the properties for the button, then the Options tab and 'Button checked by default' should be blank, not checked.

As for JavaScript in Acro Pro 9, go to Advanced > Document Processing and in the lower part, you will see different options for JavaScript actions.Hope this helps!
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2010-08-10 01:26:30
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Abbica
Registered: Feb 4 2009
Posts: 38
Thanks Drogan, I saw that option and my form does open up with no boxes checked, but just say I click a radio button by accident and I want to deselect it, it wont let me, have to leave it selected.

Is this possible with radio buttons or would check boxes be a better solution, or is there no difference?
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2010-08-11 16:00:00
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Drogan
Registered: Jan 26 2009
Posts: 8
Unfortunately, you can't deselect a radio button. Once it's checked, that's it, unless you close and reopen the document without saving. Otherwise, the check box would be a better solution because you can check and uncheck those at will unlike radio buttons.
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2010-08-12 01:06:34
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Abbica
Registered: Feb 4 2009
Posts: 38
Hi Drogan, thanks for the reply, at least I can stop looking for a solution now!
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2010-08-12 08:52:12
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Drogan
Registered: Jan 26 2009
Posts: 8
You're welcome. Glad I could help. :-)
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2011-03-10 08:17:28
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wkeevers96
Registered: Mar 9 2011
Posts: 1
I discovered this post because I was having the problem. I deal all the time with non-specialists; I tell them not to let the computer get them so geeky that they lose their creativity & common sense. ("The computer's real job is to make you feel stupid, since it can't do anything on its own.") In that light, I find that the easiest thing for me to do, once I had inadvertently selected a radio-button or check-box, was to retain a copy of as much as possible about the field settings, destroy the field and start over. I now have a fill form with no radio buttons selected. If I want to test it, I exit the Professional application, view & test-fill the form in Reader, (print the results in Microsoft XPS "printer" if needed), exit Reader and perform any needed form editing in Professional. (This-all is like the case of the spy the FBI sent in to Intel, who the FBI prompted to steal Intel trade secrets and pass them to China! It was in the day when floppy diskettes were common on computers. Intel's chip development division had no floppy drives or other file-saving ports on their computers. The FBI's spy simply resorted to photographing various pages displayed on monitors with a film camera. Government-sponsored asymmetric warfare on the domestic front.)
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