How to populate drop down options with values from text fields (PDF form)

Question

I have a drop down field "Weight" where I want the drop down field options to be the values from various text fields.

Speficifically I have text fields Wt1, Wt2, Wt3, Wt4, and Wt5.

The values of these text fields is determined based on other fields and user input.

I would like the drop down options that appear in "Weight" to be the values of these text fields.

I've tried something like the below. with no luck:

var wt1 = this.getField("Wt1").value;
var wt2 = this.getField("Wt2").value;
var wt3 = this.getField("Wt3").value;
var wt4 = this.getField("Wt4").value;
var wt5 = this.getField("Wt5").value;
this.getField("Weight").setItems([wt1,wt2,wt3,wt4,wt5]);

I suspect it is an easy thingto do just don't know the code or where to put it, i.e., as validation, caculation, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

try67 · Accepted Answer

Yes, this is happening because the code is constantly executing. That's the problem of doing something like that...

The solution could be to move to the code to a different type of event, or to make it only execute if the field that triggered the event (the "source") is one of those drop-downs, or to save the field's current value and then re-apply it after updating the list.

try67 · Answer

The code seems fine. What happens when you run it?

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