Required minimum 2 text fields out of 4 to be completed before submiting a form

Question

Hi all. Need some help if possible. I have a submit button in my form running a Java Script to extract emails associated to checkboxes in that particular form. So this works like this:

var fields = ["Checkbox1", "Checkbox2", "Checkbox3", "Checkbox4"];

var addresses = [];

for (var i in fields) {

var v = this.getField(fields).valueAsString;

if (v!="Off") addresses.push(v);

}

this.mailDoc({cTo: addresses.join(";"), cSubject: "Subject line goes here"});

And each checkbox has an email address as export value. This is all working fine. Now with all of this working I'm wondering if there is a chance to do the next:

- form has 4 required text fields. I want that user must fill up minimum 2 out of these 4 fields, before Submit button will work. Of course it is allowed to user to fill 3 or even all 4 required text fields and then to submit a form as well. Now I know that there is a validation script for required either text field 1 or 2 to be completed:

this.getField("Name of other field").required = (event.value=="");

event.target.required = true;

and set your fields as required, but then I have to run a Submit form on a submit button without possibility to extract emails associated to checkboxes. Hope all is clear, let me know if you need any other info.

Tnx to all in advance.

try67 · Accepted Answer

No, text fields do not corresponds to check boxes.

OK... Then you can do it like this, I guess:

var fields1 = ["Text1", "Text2", "Text3", "Text4"];
var addresses1 = [];
for (var i in fields1) {
    var v = this.getField(fields1).valueAsString;
    if (v!="") addresses1.push(v);
}
if (addresses1.length<2) app.alert("Error!");
else {
    // place the rest of the code to submit the file here
}

try67 · Answer

Setting the fields as required is not going to work.What you can do is simply change the last line of the submit code to this:if (addresses.length>=2) this.mailDoc({cTo: addresses.join(";"), cSubject: "Subject line goes here"});else app.alert("You must select at least two email addresses.",1);

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