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February 9, 2025
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Duplicate text box and dropdown issue

  • February 9, 2025
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Good Day Experts, 

 

             So, my issue today is that I have copied text boxes and some copied dropdown boxes throughout several pages of my forms. As known, if you check "required" or "read-only," it affects all the other copies as well. My goal is to have one text box and dropdown to allow entry and all the rest be read-only. Is this possible? 

Correct answer PDF Automation Station

Read-only is a field level property so it's not possible with the same field name.  Use two different field names (one for the data entry field and another for all the read-only fields).  In one of the read-only fields enter the following custom calculation script:

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

Change "Entry" to the actual field name.

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February 9, 2025

Read-only is a field level property so it's not possible with the same field name.  Use two different field names (one for the data entry field and another for all the read-only fields).  In one of the read-only fields enter the following custom calculation script:

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

Change "Entry" to the actual field name.