How to populate multiple text boxes from one dropdown selection

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Hi thereI am trying to populate two text boxes on a form triggered by one selection from a dropdown list.Each dropdown selection has two attributes that I want to display, with one of them able to be overwritten.My knowledge is limited but I have managed to get it to work for one attribute running this script on the 'Colour' dropdown Mouse up trigger:- this.getField("Colour").setItems(new Array(["",""],["Black","1995"],["White","1993"],["Grey","1998"])); And adding this custom calculation script to the 'Year' text box:-event.value=this.getField("Colour").value(This variable is fixed and can’t be changed by the user). I'd like to populate a second text box ‘Percentage’, with a colour attribute value (0.75%, 0.50%, 0.00% respectively), that could be overwritten by the user.I thought I could just extend the array to cover a third variable but I can't make that work.Can anyone guide me with how to do this?Many thanks

try67 · Answer

You can put multiple values in the second variable, separated by a known delimiter (such as "~" or ";") and then use the split method to split that single string into an array of strings, and apply each part to a different field.

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