Validate Dropdown selections

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 20, 2017
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Hey everyone,

I am most certain this is a simple if statement, but since my java knowledge is pretty outdated, I need some help. I am creating an interactive pdf and I need to validate the form. I am using dropdown menus for the most part and I need a script to check to see if the default selection is still present. If so, I need a prompt to highlight the dropdown menu that still has the default value present. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

- G

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try67

Community Expert

You can use this code to do that:

var f = this.getField("Dropdown1");
if (f.valueAsString==f.defaultValue) {
    app.alert("You must fill in this field before submitting the file.",1);
    f.setFocus();
} else this.mailDoc();

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big_gilAuthor

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For some reason, this is not working. I just tested it and left one of the dropdown selections with the default value and no prompt or error code populates. I have attached this code within a button.

Thanks!

try67

Community Expert

You can't attach PDF files here. You should upload it to a sharing website like Dropbox or Google Drive and then post the link to it.

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