addItem

You need to decide what action will trigger the updating of the second drop down box. In the article Thom Parker pointed you to, the second drop down box was updated when an item in the first drop down box was selected.

I am still having trouble with the addItem function. In the code for the second box I have

var a = getField("List2");

if(getField("List1").value == "fruit")
{
this.addItem("HI");
}

app.alert("Hello");



The alert is working, however the box does not contain any items. How do I get the addItem function to actually add HI to the dropdown memu?

Thank you.

"this" usually refers to the currently opened document.
If you want to add "HI" to List2, then use this:

getField("List2").addItem("HI");

Or in your case you can use:

a.addItem("HI");

It still doesn't seem to work. I keep getting an error saying that b.addItem is not a function.


var a = getField("List1");
var b = getField("List2");

if(a.value == "fruit")
{
b.addItem("banana");
}
if(a.value == "veggie")
{
b.addItem("carrot");
}


I put this code in the custom calulation script in the calculate tab.

Thank you for your help!

I should have double-checked this...
There's no such thing as addItem(). You probably want to use insertItemAt().
Check the reference for the full parameters description.