how to script mutiple dropdown box

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July 30, 2018
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I'm trying to script a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Standard DC to have 3 drop down box to only select the proper selection depending on the previous selection in the dropdown boxes, like my first box has service plans ( No service. Voice and Text Service. Voice, Text and Data Service. Data Service.) my second drop box ( Android, IOS, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone(Voice & text only), Mobile cellular modem, Fixed cellular modem, Tablet, Pager, Push-to-talk) and my 3 dropdown box, has the selection of phones depending on what they would select from the previous dropdown boxes.

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Correct answer Thom Parker

Here is another article that explains List programming (including multiple dependent drop downs).

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/List-Field-Usage-and-Handling.cfm

Thom Parker

Correct answer

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Here is another article that explains List programming (including multiple dependent drop downs).

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/List-Field-Usage-and-Handling.cfm

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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sebastien8603Author

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I made a mistake its not the standard version im using its the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

try67

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In that case read these tutorials:

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/change_another_field

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/js_list_combo_livecycle

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/list_and_combo_in_lc

try67

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That would be quite hard to do in general, and especially in the Standard version, since you don't have direct access in it to the doc-level scripts, which means you can't define the data model at a shared location for all the scripts required to do it.

However, a script can still access it, so if you want you can use this (paid-for) tool I've developed that will allow you to set it up easily and quickly, based on a simple spreadsheet with all the data in it: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Create Cascading Dropdowns

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