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2010-02-10 18:50:52

cjoverly

Registered: Feb 9 2010

Posts: 2

I am completely new to creating forms in Acrobat and to JavaScript. In my form I have two radio buttons, a field with a variable and a field to display the answer. I want to create a script that will calculate the following:

"If radio button 1 is selected, then multiply the value in the variable field times 120 and display the answer in the answer field. If radio button 2 is selected, then multiply the value in the variable field times 60 and display the answer in the answer field. If neither radio button is selected, then display zero in the answer field."

I have read a few articles on conditional statements and have written some code but am not quite there.

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows

2010-02-11 00:19:37

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2398

Here's my suggestion: Give the first radio button an export value of 120 and the second one 60.
I think that if you do that you don't need a script. You just set up the answer field's value as the product of the radio button and the variable field.
If that doesn't work, come back here and I'll give you the code to do it.

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2010-02-12 06:56:33

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4307

When no item in a Radio Button group or Check Box group is selected the value for the group is 'Off' . If you are using the 'Field is the _____ of' Acrobat adjust for the value of 'Off'. But if you are using a custom calculation script, you need to test for the 'Off' value.

event.value = 0; // default value is no calculation performedif(this.getField('RadioButtonFieldName').value == 'Off') {// my calculation scriptevent.value = this.getField('VariableFieldName').value * this.getField('RadioButtonFieldName').value;} // end radio button not off

Note you can not use simplified field calculation method.

George Kaiser

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