Drop down list that generates text in a separate text box

Question

Hi everyone.

First off, I don't know if this is even possible, but if anyone can think of a way to make it work, please let me know.

So this is what I am trying to achieve:

Form that has multiple drop down menus.
A user works through the drop down menus selecting topics
Each topic has an export value that is a line of text with that topic
(now this is where I get lost) The export values are then combined into one long line of text and put onto the same pdf into it's own text box.

The goal is that the user can select each of the pertinent topics, and line of text is created, and then the user can copy that text for their use.

Is this possible? If so, does anyone have any idea of how to do something like this?

Thank you,

Michael

try67 · Accepted Answer

Sure, and it's actually quite easy. Let's say you've set up all of the export values of all of the items in your check-boxes (call them Checkbox1, Checkbox2, etc.), and that you've set up a multi-line text field. You can then use this code as the custom calculation script of that text field:event.value = this.getField("Checkbox1").value + "
" + this.getField("Checkbox2").value + "
" + this.getField("Checkbox3").value + "
" + this.getField("Checkbox4").value;And that's it. The value will automatically update when a selection is made in any of those check-boxes.

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