Javascript Auto Populate

[ufc205]

Hey guys I have a fillable PDF form that I want to add a dropdown to, then once the dropdown selection is made it will autopopulate another text field. Trying to use the code below but its not working. I know I can set the export values of the dropdown/combobox and then just have whatever field inset the dropdowns value but I have a dropdown which then needs to populate 3 other fields with different values based on that dropdown fields value, so I need to build some sort of conditional if statement in the fields.

var rating = this.getField("Dropdown3").value;
if( rating = "1" ) event.value = "Test1";
else if( rating = "2" ) event.value = "Test2";
else event.value = "";

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello ufc205,

Welcome to our forums. Please take a look at the attached sample file where you can see how a check box and drop down fields can control others.
The JS for the drop down is in a Custom Action script:

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Kind regards,
Stefan

[ufc205]

Thank you very much for the fast reply and that is exactly what I needed! Works great now!

I have another challenge where I have a dropdown and based on the selection I'd like another specific dropdown to appear.

For example:
If Dropdown1 option 1 is selected will make Dropdown2 appear
If Dropdown1 option 2 is selected will make Dropdown3 appear

And then I'd need it to hide all the others and only show the correct one based off the Dropdown1 selection.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello ufc205,

Please take a look at the code for the checkboxes in the same file from the above post - they are turning the other fields on and off - so you can use the same however activate it on the Drop down selection being made!

Kind regards,
Stefan

[ufc205]

Once again thank you kindly for that!! One thing I will note is that for dropdowns the JS has to be put in the Format Custom Calculation.

Is it possible once I have a page with a bunch of custom fields and JS to copy that page again with unique field names?

For example if original page has a field named "Dropdown1" the copy would create "Dropdown1_1" or something along those lines?

The reason being is I have about 50 drop downs on this one page that are shown or hidden based on another dropdown value and I need 15 copies of this page.

Right now when I copy it all the fields are the same on every page so a change on page 1 reflects on all of them, really hoping I don't have to manually rename each field 1 by 1

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Duplicating pages in combination with "Copy (fields) with Rename" should normally work via the Organize-ribbon > Duplicate Pages > Options and also when copying/duplicating pages via the Thumbnails-pane, but unfortunately that does not work correctly at this time.

It seems like a ticket to resolve that issue has been made, at the time of build 371:
viewtopic.php?t=40572

In the current latest build 383, it still does not seem to work.

@pdf-xchange support:
Can you confirm that ?

Thanks and kind regards.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Willy Van Nuffel

The copy with rename issue was actually just fixed in our nightly build not too long ago, and will be present in the next release (build 384)!
With that said, in relation to this topic, I do not believe that we offer any way to have the javascript be updated automatically to use the new fields, so if for example, on page one you had 5 fields, and "field5" simply says " add the values of fields 1-4. Then when you duplicate the page, on page you you will see fields 6-10, but field10 would still contain JS that refers to fields 1-4, and not fields 6-9...

Kind regards,

[Willy Van Nuffel]

I do not believe that we offer any way to have the JavaScript be updated automatically

@pdf-xchange support
Can this be something valid for a feature request ?

Kind regards.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Willy Van Nuffel,

The issue here is how are we going to determine which code to update - and there could be some form fields with hundreds of lines of JS code inside in some complex form - so not really something that I can see easily automated.

Kind regards,
Stefan

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Thanks for your answer Stefan.

Kind regards.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

[ufc205]

Hey just wanted to post one last update! I got everything working now.

I was able to use the insert page option with "Copy (fields) with Rename" and then I just had to manually update the JS code on each page to the new fields which wasn't too difficult to do!

Thanks again for all your help, very much appreciated!

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello ufc205,

Happy to hear you've got it all working as needed!

Happy holidays and
Kind regards,
Stefan