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Required Text Fields

buddenceq
Registered: Dec 3 2007
Posts: 17

I'm using Acrobat 8 and using Acrobat Forms. I'm trying to do something quite simple actually. I have made a text field and I would like the user to be required to fill it in before they submit the form. I have the "required" box checked in the properties so I feel that it should work. I filled in the text field as a test and then hit the submit button, but it is telling me that the field is still required. I don't have any other options checked in the "options" tab either.

Has any run into this problem. I thought that it may have been a corrupt file so I tried a test on a separate document and it still did not work.

gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
The "requried" property is used by a web server side script as noted in the JS Scripting Reference. However one can with JavaScript test a fields property for the "required" property's value and perform a simple test to see if the field has or has not been completed and take action as needed.

George Kaiser

cstark1
Registered: Feb 10 2011
Posts: 2
Sorry I posted this in the wrong place and I am not sure how to delete this

Christy