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2007-04-06 14:34:41

depitlorer

Registered: Apr 6 2007

Posts: 2

Hello - I'm currently using LiveCycle Designer to create some new forms and I was looking for an option to have certain fields become read only (vs. required)based on the selection of a radio button. For example, a 'yes' or 'no' radio button and if yes is selected, they would have 3 required fields below that, if no, then those fields would still be present on the forms, but the user wouldn't be able to populate them.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows

2007-04-08 15:58:30

thomp

Registered: Feb 15 2006

Posts: 4411

The field's "access" property is what you want to control. For example: for a field named "DecimalField1" you can use the MouseUp event on two Radio buttons to make the field editable or readOnly.

**MouseUp for "ReadOnly" radio button

DecimalField1.access = "readOnly";

**MouseUp for "Edit" radio button

DecimalField1.access = "open";

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2008-06-17 14:28:27

kbedward

Registered: Nov 9 2007

Posts: 29

Is there a similar option for AcroForms? I have several check boxes that when selected, I would like to make combo boxes required.