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Setting Radio Button Values based on selected Drop down value

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2007-06-04 15:03:12
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Registered: Jan 26 2007
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On a form, how do you set the values of the multiple sets of radio buttons as being selected based on the drop down value of a text field? The multiple sets of radio buttons are grouped together eg., WP.1 (with WP.1#0, WP.1#1, WP.1#2). I want to set WP.1#1 as selected if the Smith text is selected in the drop down value. Thanks!

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Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-06-06 16:40:28
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
I'll assume that you are asking about LiveCycle forms, not AcroForms. The concepts for radiow buttons between the two forms technologies are very similar to the discussion below really applies to both.

Radio buttons are like potato chips, you've got to have more than one. Radio button's by themselves do not have a value, only a group of radio buttons has a value. Like it's a single element.

Individual Radio buttons do have an export value. In both LiveCycle forms and AcroForms this export value is text. And in both cases, the value of the Radio Button Group is the export value of the selected radio button.

So there is your answer. Use the value of the drop down list to set the value of the radio button group.

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