Help with positive and or negative data put into a field

Do you mean the data needs to be within  +/- 10 of a given measurement or the value needs to be between -10 and +10 .

The following script can handle either case when the correct values for the stand and the range are entered.

// get the data from the form field ;

var d = this.getField("Measurement").valueAsString;  // test field valueAsString;

if(d == "")

{

// no entry for test

event.value = "";

} else {

// report if test result within allowed range;

var nStandard = 15; // required standard;

var nRange = 10; // acceptible variance from standard;

// compute difference from a standard;

var nDiff = Math.abs(nStandard - Number(d))

event.value = (nDiff > nStandard) ? "Fail", : "Pass";

}

One could even write a custom function to indicate a pass or fail for the result when compared to a standard and a range for acceptance.

Such a function could be:

function Results(nStandard, nRange, nTestValue)
{
// function to return logical true or false if test value not within the range for the standard value;
return Math.abs(nStandard - nTestValue) <= nRange;
} // end Results function;

And the custom calculation for the individual result field could then be:

// get the data from the form field ;
var d = this.getField("Measurement").valueAsString;  // test field valueAsString;
if(d == "")
{
// no entry for test
event.value = "";
} else {
// report if test result within allowed range;
var nStandard = 15; // required standard;
var nRange = 10; // acceptible variance from standard;
// compute difference from a standard;
event.value = Results(nStandard, nRange, d) ? "Pass" : "Fail";
}

You can use something like the following script as the custom calculation script for your pass/fail field:

// get the data from the form field
var d = this.getField("Data1").value;
if (d == "") {
    event.value = "";
}
else if (Math.abs(d) > 10) {
    event.value = "fail";
}
else if (Math.abs(d) <= 10) {
    event.value = "pass";
}

steft66579364  wrote ... The data can be positive or negative, but not greater than -10 or +10 ...

Can you explain this? Every positive number is greater than -10.