I want Acrobat to count the number of checkboxes which are selected in a form

Question

I'm creating a form which will be used by certain proces checks. A number of questions will be launches which must be anwered by checkboxes whether it is good or not good. In case of the "not goods" the answers will be classified in different categories. I want acrobat to count all the "not goods" in the different categories. When i select a field and selct that field is calculated, I can select the checkboxes that needs to be calculated but there no output.... Can anyone help me?

try67 · Accepted Answer

The field where the sum has tot rak place is called "AantalRow1" and amon others the fields that should be calculated when they are selected (on) are for instance: "Check Box18", "Check Box19", "Check Box15", "Check Box16", "Check Box20". There will be more fields to becalculated when the form is complete but while designing the form I'd like to test it and see if it can be done! Do hope that you van provide the solution! Perhaps I should mail you the form so can take a look?

In this case you'll need to hard-code the names of the fields into the code.

Let's assume you want to count how many fields have the "ja" value selected.

You can use this code as the custom calculation script of the text field where you want to show the result:

var fields = ["Check Box18", "Check Box19", "Check Box15"]; // etc.
var total = 0;
for (var i in fields) {
    var f = this.getField(fields);
    if (f==null) {
        console.println("Error! Can't find: " + fields);
        continue;
    }
    if (f.valueAsString=="ja") total++;
}
event.value = total;

try67 · Answer

Do all of these fields have the same export values? If so, what are their names?

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