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Using field data in a drop down

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2010-04-14 06:26:42
kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12

I've been a livecycle user for a few years now but I'm finally stumped on something that I can't find info for online - perhaps because I don't know what terms to search for.

I want people to enter info into fields

Last Name [FIELD1]
Your ID [FIELD2]
Your Other ID [FIELD3]
Your Email [FIELD4]

Then later in that form I want those to appear in a drop down list for selection.

What is your login? [LIST; FIELD1, FIELD2, FIELD3, FIELD4]

I hope I described that so it makes sense, I appreciate any help, thanks!

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2010-04-14 06:40:05
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kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
Also, step 2 that I need would be to be able to populate decisions on that field

[Item] [ID]

so if you chose email address under [ITEM] it will automatically choose [FIELD1] from the login/list field and put it in [ID]. That may be a little trickier.

That one is more like an if/then statement. If the chosen field is email then populate field "x" with "y" data.
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2010-04-14 07:29:51
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kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
Link to test form http://oarenj.com/test_form.pdf

This may help explain better.

People would populate the 3 fields (Name, User ID and email) then we would choose the application from the drop down, choose the populated data from the User ID and email fields in the next drop down and in the final put in the password.

Ultimately would like to be able to choose blue app, have it know to use the email address for login and blue123 for the password but that may be a bit much to figure out.
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2010-04-15 06:33:31
#3
kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
anyone?
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2010-04-15 10:36:48
#4
kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
This must be a little harder than I thought, maybe I'll look at solutions outside of Adobe to accomplish.
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2010-04-20 08:26:05
#5
kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
Still looking....
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2010-04-22 10:22:53
#6
kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
anyone?
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2010-04-27 07:57:14
#7
kschafer
Registered: Apr 14 2010
Posts: 12
this thing on?
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2010-04-27 08:24:05
#8
jonom
Registered: Jan 31 2008
Posts: 133
Are you just talking about populating a dropdown list?

Check out addItem().
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2010-04-27 09:03:31
#9
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi kschafer,

If you want to know if this is possible the answer is Yes. If what you want is for someone to analyze your form and write the scripts for you, here are a couple options that may yield quicker results-

1. Post this on the AUC Job Board to get bids for the work.
2. Post this on the Adobe.com LiveCycle Designer forums- there are Adobe employees there right now that are analyzing and doing lots of code work for people for free. Just post the link to your form and I bet some Adobe employee will code it up for you.

The AUC forums are user-to-user and generally for asking point questions that can be answered in a few minutes. Your question goes quite a bit beyond that, and for more complex requests like yours you simply have to wait until someone has the time to volunteer, or maybe never get a reply.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.pdfscirpting.com
www.windjack.com

Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
pdfscripting.com

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