Clear Form stops JS from running??

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February 24, 2022
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I have a PDF that has a bunch of Form Fields, in which this commumity has helped me greatly in writing JS for, but i have noticed that when i use the "clear form" in the Tools-Forms-More Options-Clear Form, several JS's I have in the Fields-Calculate tab dont run or calculate. Is this a flaw in Adobe or is there something I need to do? I have to click in each form field and delete the contents one by one to keep the JS from getting stopped.

I also have a button I made to shortcut the "Clear Form" and it also causes the same thing.

I am using Adobe Pro 11 on Windows.

Thanks!!

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try67

Community Expert

This indicates there's an error in the code, that's causing the rest of it to not execute.

Check the JS Console for error messages.

J

JD5C1EAuthor

Known Participant

This is my code:

var startDate = this.getField("StartDate").valueAsString;
var term = Number(this.getField("TERM").valueAsString);
var x = startDate.split("/");
if (startDate=="" || x[1] == "01" || x[1] == "1")
event.value = "";
else {var d = util.scand("mm.dd.yyyy", startDate);d.setMonth(d.getMonth()+term); d.setDate(d.getDate()-1);
event.value = util.printd("mm.dd.yyyy", d);}

It runs just fine if i dont use the "Clear Form" option.

I will take a look at the console and see if there is a error msg.

J

JD5C1EAuthor

Known Participant

This is the error I see:

ReferenceError: months is not defined
9:Field:Calculate

Why would months not be defined only after using "Clear Form"?

The Months doesn't have a problem being defined before...

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

What calculations does you want use on a empty form?

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