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What do I need to do? Re: Order Form

kristenjoy
Registered: Jan 23 2009
Posts: 14
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Hi. I hope I have come to the right place to get this figured out. I must admit, I'm probably expecting way too much out of this form, but I would love it if it would all work how I'm wanting it too. I'm a portrait photographer and I'm creating an order form for ordering prints. Ideally, I would like them to be able to select a certain package and for it to input in the form the correct sizes for the package and of course when they want to order a la carte items, I'd like for it to let them select the size of the photo and then the correct unit price comes up. I'm pretty sure I can figure simple things like getting the total to come up by telling it to multiply quantity by unit price, but all the other stuff I'm pretty stuck on. If anyone is willing to help, I'd be happy to send over the file or any other info. you may need. Thanks, Kristen

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Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Macintosh
George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
From your description it is almost certainly possible, but you haven't given enough details to suggest a particular approach. Can you post the PDF somewhere?

George
kristenjoy
Registered: Jan 23 2009
Posts: 14
Sure! Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'd really appreciate it if you could take a look!

http://www.kristenjoymoore.com/ORDERFORM25a.pdf
George_Johnson
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Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
Can you describe in detail exactly what you want to happen when a particular package is chosen? What things vary between packages?

George
kristenjoy
Registered: Jan 23 2009
Posts: 14
Basically it's just the sizes of the prints that are different and the amount of them. For example, the Just the basics package has 7 - 5x7's, 6 - 8x10's and 1 - 11x14. But I would want them to be able to choose a different image for each print, so it would need to fill out the form with 7, 5x7's etc and then I'd still like them to be able to choose a la carte items. Anyway, for the packages, I'd also like it to fill out just the price for the package instead of doing the unit price times quantity, since those packages have been discounted for buying that many items. Does that make sense?

By the way, I'm open to creating more than one form if need be, since I think I will need to do this anyway to get album orders and other products ordered with ease.
George_Johnson
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Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
You can do that, but I think it might make sense to modify the form so that it's in two sections. The first section would allow the user to select a package, and then the details would automatically fill-in the individual line items below. The second section would be for specifying "a la carte" items.

In order to do what you want, you will need to do some JavaScript programming. There are a lot of learning resources here, including some articles by Thom Parker that touch on some of what you'll need to do (programming list/combo boxes). Check out the "Learning Center > Tutorials" link at the top of this page.George
kristenjoy
Registered: Jan 23 2009
Posts: 14
Ok, cool, so from what you can tell, I haven't messed up the system any by mistake, so far, right?
George_Johnson
Expert
Registered: Jul 6 2008
Posts: 1876
No, the form looks nice. Post again if you run into any trouble or have more questions.

George
kristenjoy
Registered: Jan 23 2009
Posts: 14
Ok, good, thanks!