multiple drop down auto populate diffrent field?

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December 14, 2017
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I am currently working on a project where I have 6 different dropdown lists all with the same information that would auto populate the corresponding field next to them.

I obviously am doing something wrong because I can not get each dropdown list and corresponding field to act on their own. What I end up with is being able to control only 1 at a time or all of them. If you look at my small sample code below maybe you can see what I am doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

var DepData={"Code Blue Elevator":{contact: "Your Department Chief"},
                       "Lab":{conatact: "Your Department Chief"},
                        };
                         function SetFieldValues(cDeptName)
                         {
                         this.getField("DeptContact").value = DeptData[cDeptName].contact;
                         }

[Edited by Mod.: Code layout fixed]

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Correct answer jonathanc1264

I figured it out.... see below if anyone else ever has this issue.

So for each dropdown box I added the following code below to the format tab "Create and Edit JavaScripts" changing drobox1 to dropbox2 and text1 to text 2 and so on and so forth. I also named it dropbox1 and text1 so it is easy for someone to understand what is what.

event.value = this.getField ("dropbox1").value;

if (!event.willCommit)

{this.getField ("text1".value=event.changeEX;}

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jonathanc1264AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

I figured it out.... see below if anyone else ever has this issue.

So for each dropdown box I added the following code below to the format tab "Create and Edit JavaScripts" changing drobox1 to dropbox2 and text1 to text 2 and so on and so forth. I also named it dropbox1 and text1 so it is easy for someone to understand what is what.

event.value = this.getField ("dropbox1").value;

if (!event.willCommit)

{this.getField ("text1".value=event.changeEX;}

Thom Parker

Community Expert

You say you put this in the Format event? Or do you mean the Keystroke event.

So the first line of code does nothing. It sets the appearance value of the drop-down to its own value.

The second line only has meaning for a keystroke event, which is what you must be talking about since you're using the event.changeEx property which only has value in the Keystroke event.

So what you are saying is that you hand coded each field to do what I was telling you to do in the previous posts.

For other people read this, do not use the code posted by jonathanc1246, this is not the right way to go.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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jonathanc1264Author

Inspiring

Thom Parker,

I'm not sure you picked up on this but I do not write code for a living... I had a task that needed completing so I reached out on this forum hoping for a solution to the problem I had. Please do not take your inability to explain in a helpful way as any kind of insult to your intelligence. I literally scoured the internet for a solution to my problem. In my mind if it works then there is no "wrong" way to go. Maybe you should make another video just for the purpose of explaining why my solution to the problem is not the right way to go and I would happily watch it. I love to learn and to help others so when you respond to the next person to try and help please keep in mind that their working knowledge is probably not at your level hence the reason they are reaching out for assistance.

Thom Parker

Community Expert

In the SetFieldValues() function, the target field name is hard coded. This needs to be set differently for each dropdown, because they each set a different text field.

There are a couple of ways to do this.

1. Include the target field name as a function input

2. Automatically generate the target field name from the name of the current field.

I like #2 best because it reduces the amount of work I have to do. but it requires the fields and named in a consistent fashion that lends itself to this process. For example "DropDown1" goes to "TextField1".

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often