MultipleCheckboxes to populate 1 textbox

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November 2, 2018
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Hi,

I am really new to javascript so bear with me. I am making a form where I have many checkboxes all named "checkbox 1" and so on (like 30 or more) that I have assigned export values (such as "red", "blue", "green"..etc). I need all of those checkboxes to populate their given export values to a single textbox(textbox 1) when checked and to remove the value when unchecked. also I need to have the values separated by commas when they are populated to the textbox and to be able to manually type in the text box as well. Please help

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Correct answer try67

Use this code as the custom calculation script of your text field:

var values = [];
for (var i=1; i<=30; i++) {
    var fname = "checkbox "+i;
    var f = this.getField(fname);
    if (f==null) {
        console.println("Error! Can't find: " + fname);
        continue;
    }
    if (f.valueAsString!="Off") values.push(f.valueAsString);
}
event.value = values.join(", ");

try67

Correct answer

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Use this code as the custom calculation script of your text field:

var values = [];
for (var i=1; i<=30; i++) {
    var fname = "checkbox "+i;
    var f = this.getField(fname);
    if (f==null) {
        console.println("Error! Can't find: " + fname);
        continue;
    }
    if (f.valueAsString!="Off") values.push(f.valueAsString);
}
event.value = values.join(", ");

lilleem89Author

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I also want to have a text box(Text4) to populate the same text box that check boxes populate to. How do I add that to the above script ?

try67

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I don't follow what you mean...

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